dbt

dbt enables analytics engineers to develop and manage semantic layers within dbt projects and deploy them to Dremio.

You can use Dremio's dbt connector dbt-dremio to transform data that is in data sources that are connected to a Dremio project.

Prerequisites

• Download the dbt-dremio package from https://github.com/dremio/dbt-dremio.
• Ensure that Python 3.9.x or later is installed.
• Ensure that you are using Dremio Software version 22.0 or later.
• If you want to use TLS to secure the connection between dbt and Dremio Software, configure full wire encryption in your Dremio cluster. For instructions, see Configuring Wire Encryption.

Installing

Install this package from PyPi by running this command:

Install dbt-dremio package

pip install dbt-dremio

note

dbt-dremio works with dbt-core versions 1.8 and 1.9. Earlier versions of dbt-core are out of support from dbt.

Initializing a dbt Project

1. Run the command dbt init <project_name>.
2. Select dremio as the database to use.
3. Select one of these options to generate a profile for your project:
   • software_with_username_password for working with a Dremio Software cluster and authenticating to the cluster with a username and a password
   • software_with_pat for working with a Dremio Software cluster and authenticating to the cluster with a personal access token

Next, configure the profile for your dbt project.

Profiles

When you initialize a dbt project, you create one of these three profiles. You must configure it before trying to connect to Dremio Cloud or Dremio Software.

• Profile for Dremio Software with Username/Password Authentication
• Profile for Dremio Software with Authentication Through a Personal Access Token

For descriptions of the configurations in these profiles, see Configurations.

Profile for Dremio Software with Username/Password Authentication

Example Profile

[project name]:
  outputs:
    dev:
      password: b9JtkIgI3uup9gGxxK
      port: 9047
      software_host: 192.0.2.0
      object_storage_source: Samples
      object_storage_path: "samples.dremio.com"."Dremio University"
      dremio_space: Space1
      dremio_space_folder: Folder1.Folder2
      threads: 1
      type: dremio
      use_ssl: true
      user: userName
  target: dev

Profile for Dremio Software with Authentication Through a Personal Access Token

Example Profile

[project name]:
  outputs:
    dev:
      pat: A1BCDrE2FwgH3IJkLM4NoPqrsT5uV6WXyza7I8bcDEFgJ9hIj0Kl1MNOPq2Rstu
      port: 9047
      software_host: 192.0.2.0
      object_storage_source: Samples
      object_storage_path: "samples.dremio.com"."Dremio University"
      dremio_space: Space1
      dremio_space_folder: Folder1.Folder2
      threads: 1
      type: dremio
      use_ssl: true
      user: userName
  target: dev

Configurations

Configuration	Required?	Default Value	Description
password	Yes, if you are not using the pat configuration.	None	The password of the account to use when logging into the Dremio cluster.
pat	Yes, if you are not using the user and password configurations.	None	The personal access token to use for authenticating to Dremio. See Personal Access Tokens for instructions about obtaining a token. The use of a personal access token takes precedence if values for the three configurations user, password and pat are specified.
port	Yes	9047	Port for Dremio Software cluster API endpoints.
software_host	Yes	None	The hostname or IP address of the coordinator node of the Dremio cluster.
object_storage_source	No	$scratch	The name of the filesystem in which to create tables, materialized views, tests, and other objects. The dbt alias is datalake. This name corresponds to the name of a source in the Object Storage section of the Datasets page in Dremio:
object_storage_path	No	no_schema	The path in the filesystem in which to create objects. The default is the root level of the filesystem. The dbt alias is root_path. Nested folders in the path are separated with periods. This value corresponds to the path in this location in the Datasets page in Dremio:
dremio_space	No	@<username>	The value of the Dremio space in which to create views. The dbt alias is database. This value corresponds to the name in this location in the Spaces section of the Datasets page in Dremio:
dremio_space_folder	No	no_schema	The folder in the Dremio space in which to create views. The default is the top level in the space. The dbt alias is schema. Nested folders are separated with periods. This value corresponds to the path in this location in the Datasets page in Dremio:
threads	Yes	1	The number of threads the dbt project runs on.
type	Yes	dremio	Auto-populated when creating a Dremio project. Do not change this value.
use_ssl	Yes	true	Acceptable values are true and false. If the value is set to true, ensure that full wire encryption is configured in your Dremio cluster. See Prerequisites for Dremio Software.
user	Yes	None	The username of the account to use when logging into the Dremio cluster.

Known Issues

Model contracts are not supported.