Dremio support was added in Looker 5.10. Looker's current dialect testing runs against Dremio version 1.4.9 Enterprise Edition.
Configuring the connection
In the Admin section of Looker, select Connections, and then click Add Connection. Fill out the connection details (see the Connecting Looker to your database documentation page for more information):
- Name: Assign a unique name to the connection. The name is how LookML refers to this connection.
- Dialect: Select Dremio.
- Host: Enter the IP address or host name of the server where Dremio is running.
- Port: The default port is
31010. - Database: The default value is
DREMIO. - Username: Enter the username Looker uses to access Dremio.
- Password: Enter the password associated with the username above.
Use the default values in all the other fields or leave them blank.
Click Test These Settings to verify a connection.
Looker will run
SELECT 1 FROM (VALUES(1))to verify a basic connection and query test. It will not validate that the user can access any of the Dremio sources or underlying tables.Click Update Connection to save these settings.
After your connection setup is complete, create a project from the LookML menu to begin the data modeling step.
Debugging
Connect your web browser to dremio_host:9047 on the server. From the SQL Editor, run SELECT 1 FROM (VALUES(1)) to verify that Dremio is installed correctly and that queries are able to execute.
Feature support
For Looker to support some features, your database dialect must also support them.
Dremio supports the following features as of Looker 23.4:
| Feature | Supported? |
|---|---|
| Support Level | Supported |
| Symmetric Aggregates | No |
| Derived Tables | Yes |
| Persistent SQL Derived Tables | No |
| Persistent Native Derived Tables | No |
| Stable Views | No |
| Query Killing | Yes |
| Pivots | No |
| Timezones | Yes |
| SSL | Yes |
| Subtotals | No |
| JDBC Additional Params | Yes |
| Case Sensitive | Yes |
| Location Type | Yes |
| List Type | No |
| Percentile | No |
| Distinct Percentile | No |
| SQL Runner Show Processes | No |
| SQL Runner Describe Table | Yes |
| SQL Runner Show Indexes | No |
| SQL Runner Select 10 | Yes |
| SQL Runner Count | Yes |
| SQL Explain | No |
| Oauth Credentials | No |
| Context Comments | Yes |
| Connection Pooling | No |
| HLL Sketches | No |
| Aggregate Awareness | No |
| Incremental PDTs | No |
| Milliseconds | Yes |
| Microseconds | No |
| Materialized Views | No |
| Approximate Count Distinct | No |
Dremio 11+ supports the following features as of Looker 23.4:
| Feature | Supported? |
|---|---|
| Support Level | Supported |
| Symmetric Aggregates | Yes |
| Derived Tables | Yes |
| Persistent SQL Derived Tables | No |
| Persistent Native Derived Tables | No |
| Stable Views | No |
| Query Killing | Yes |
| Pivots | No |
| Timezones | Yes |
| SSL | Yes |
| Subtotals | No |
| JDBC Additional Params | Yes |
| Case Sensitive | Yes |
| Location Type | Yes |
| List Type | No |
| Percentile | No |
| Distinct Percentile | No |
| SQL Runner Show Processes | No |
| SQL Runner Describe Table | Yes |
| SQL Runner Show Indexes | No |
| SQL Runner Select 10 | Yes |
| SQL Runner Count | Yes |
| SQL Explain | No |
| Oauth Credentials | No |
| Context Comments | Yes |
| Connection Pooling | No |
| HLL Sketches | No |
| Aggregate Awareness | No |
| Incremental PDTs | No |
| Milliseconds | Yes |
| Microseconds | No |
| Materialized Views | No |
| Approximate Count Distinct | No |
Next steps
After you have completed the database connection, configure authentication options.