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Metabase
Popular open-source BI and dashboarding tool that lets non-technical users build charts and dashboards over SQL/NoSQL data sources. Ships as a single JAR but defaults to an embedded H2 file database for its own app data, which is a common production footgun.
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⚙ Full Stack
Clojure/JVM monolith exposing a React frontend, with its own metadata store defaulting to embedded H2 (a real data-loss risk on container restarts unless switched to Postgres/MySQL) separate from the customer data sources it queries.
📈 Scaling Analysis
Scales acceptably for read-heavy dashboard traffic once the app database is externalized to Postgres, but query performance is bounded by the underlying data warehouse, not Metabase itself; the default H2 config is a hard scaling and durability ceiling that must be fixed before any real deployment.
🚀 Running on Nexlayer
Deploy as an app pod plus a dedicated postgres pod for Metabase's own application database (postgres.pod:5432) — never leave it on the default H2 file store in a container since that data disappears on pod recreation. Mirror the JVM image via mirror.gcr.io and allocate adequate JVM heap via env vars.