Metabase to MySQL Integration

How Datrise loads Metabase into MySQL

Datrise syncs Metabase's questions, dashboards, collections, cards, users, and query executions into MySQL as a typed table per source entity. Flexible or custom fields land in JSON columns, and timestamps such as created, updated, and status changes are typed as DATETIME/TIMESTAMP.

Sync is incremental: Datrise uses a watermark on updated-at, applied with INSERT … ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE, so re-runs update only what changed. Optional RANGE partitioning by load date. MySQL collation matters for CRM text, so Datrise lands utf8mb4 to preserve emoji and non-Latin characters.

Ideal for operational reporting and app databases already standardized on MySQL.

Endpoints

Metabase: Self-service BI over existing databases.

MySQL: Widely used OSS relational engine (InnoDB).

How Metabase entities map to MySQL

Metabase entity	MySQL object	Notes
questions	`metabase_questions`	id PK · custom fields → JSON columns
dashboards	`metabase_dashboards`	id PK · linked to metabase_questions
collections	`metabase_collections`	id PK · linked to metabase_questions
cards	`metabase_cards`	id PK · linked to metabase_questions

FAQ

How does Datrise handle Metabase's custom fields in MySQL?

Flexible values are stored as JSON columns, so new fields don't require a migration; strongly-typed fields — dates, numbers, and references — are promoted to native MySQL types.

How does the Metabase to MySQL sync stay up to date?

It runs incrementally — Datrise uses a watermark on updated-at, applied with INSERT … ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE.

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