Using Metabase with Firebase Realtime Database for data analytics [closed]

Question

Is it possible to setup and use Metabase (https://metabase.com/) to directly (or indirectly, maybe via Google BigQuery) connect to Firebase realtime Database to fetch data to analyze? Any advice or tutorial links (if available) will be highly appreciated!

Answer 1

Firebase support is still an open issue on Metabase: https://github.com/metabase/metabase/issues/4213

Noteworthy comment/opinion from contributor/CEO of Metabase:

For what it's worth, for firebase specifically, we'd strongly suggest getting your database and/or analytics events into BigQuery somehow vs coding against the database rest api directly.

I'm leaving this issue open in case to not squash anyone's motivation, but even if it does get addressed in a PR, I'd still recommend using BQ =)