Metabase is an open-source analytics platform that runs on the JVM. It is available as both a self-hosted JAR and a cloud-hosted service. Customers connect Metabase to databases in a variety of environments, including databases outside Metabase's infrastructure and on-premises databases reached through SSH tunnels.
Metabase transforms let users build scheduled data pipelines. A "query transform" runs a saved query and writes its results to a target table in the same database. Dependencies between transforms form a directed acyclic graph, which Metabase uses to run them in the correct order. Today, each transform executes entirely inside the customer's database.