Support for other SQL providers

#1

Hi everyone, I was wondering if you are planning to provide support to other providers like mysql or sql server any time in the future?

#2

For the moment we have no plan to include these providers. Since CF Toolkit is a compound of visualizations and analytics libraries, the supported providers are also focused on search and analytics as well (Google BigQuery, Elasticseach…).

If you use any other data engine, I could recommend you three things:

  1. You can have scripts / processes that index data from different data engines to Elasticsearch to be used as a provider since this is one of the fastest search and analytics engine out there. Usually these are a single python script that does all the job.

  2. Use the special provider CF Node which can be used as a gateway between ChartFactor and any data backend. The user will have to provide the logic to connect to the backend.

  3. If it is a special case that you may need, You can contact us to see how we can help you.

#3

The scripts sounds as a good idea, also the fastest in my mind. I think that I’m going to give it a try to the cf node provider, maybe it can be used for others. Thanks @eduardo