Design Decisions

Schema sync to front-ends

When reporting tools have a Metadata API (e.g. Metabase, Tableau) or can read schema definitions from text files (e.g. Looker, Mondrian), then it’s easy to sync definitions with them. The Mara Metabase package contains a function for syncing Mara Schema definitions with Metabase and the Mara Mondrian package contains a generator for a Mondrian schema.

We welcome contributions for creating Looker LookML files, for syncing definitions with Tableau, and for syncing with any other BI front-end.

Also, we see a potential for automatically creating data guides in other Wikis or documentation tools.