Metabase v0.35 includes a new query processor that improves the performance of queries by not requiring all data to be stored in memory. This release updates the Athena driver to be compatible with v0.35.
There are also a couple other minor changes:
- Upgrades the Athena driver to 2.0.9 - Here are full release notes, but of particular note is that the driver no longer throws an exception when
partitionkeysparameter is missing from the table definition. - You'll see a new option when connecting to Athena where you can input semicolon-delimited options from the Athena JDBC Driver Installation and Configuration Guide.
🙏 Thanks to folks that use this driver!
💁♂️ Please note: This driver is only compatible with Metabase v0.35.0 and up. Releases prior to that should use v0.3.0.
Install it by downloading athena.metabase-driver.jar to a plugins/ folder wherever you are running Metabase from. Happy queries!