Metabase Architecture

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can you please help me to understand Metabase Architecture along with that how does the data loading & data handling and cache mechanism works in Metabase ? Any documentation would be really helpful

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Hi @vsuravaram

  1. The user creates or views a question in the frontend and that sends a request to the backend.
  2. The backend checks if it has a cache of this query - if cache is enabled, and it's not a no-cache request, and if cache TTL is still valid. If yes to all, then cached results are returned - go to step 5
  3. The backend sends the query to the database
  4. The backend receives results from the database - if cache is enabled, then the results are stored
  5. The backend sends the results to the user (frontend)
  6. The frontend displays the results in the visualization chosen

For reference: https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/administration-guide/14-caching.html

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Thank you for the swift response. May I ask you to share any Metabase Architecture diagram

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@vsuravaram I'm not sure what you are looking for, but all the source code is available on https://github.com/metabase/metabase

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@flamber, I a referring to the attached architecture diagram. Could you please help me to understand in deeper

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@vsuravaram Metabase is single, contained service, so that would just be similar to what you already have created.

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Thanks @flamber .Do you have any additional documentation on the architecture apart from the above which explain about data handling & data loading etc.,

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@vsuravaram It's very broad questions you're asking. I'm not sure exactly what you're looking for or what you need it for.