[grzm]

One of the strengths of Metabase is that it can plug into a variety of data sources, not just RDBMS. For example, AWS Athena over data in S3 buckets. Good design can still make things easier, of course, but not always an option. Relational purity is not going to be an option in such circumstances, so are in my opinion correctly not addressed in the piece.

[mulmen]

Metabase sounds like a great tool for building clean analytic schemas then. You still need to design those schemas though.