Add support to OmniSciDB database

[xmnlab]

Hi everyone!

I would like to know if it is possible to add support to OmniSciDB[1].

I am reading the code to check how can I do that, I am still learning how to use this library .. so if there is any recommendation, guidance, documentation etc that would be very appreciated.

thanks!

[1] https://github.com/omnisci/omniscidb

[niviksha]

@xmnlab 👋 - I already connected with the observable team, and they walked me through a set of observable notebooks. For us it is a matter of wrapping our javascript API by following one of the examples here (like Postgres or Snowflake) to build our own connector

Observable notebooks on database connectivity
https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/databases
https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/self-hosted-database-proxies

OmniSci's js API is here:
https://omnisci.github.io/mapd-connector/docs/

Roughly we know that wrapping our connector above using a template from Snowflake or Postgres. I'm hoping once we get that far and test it, we can submit a PR for the observable team.

[xmnlab]

Thanks @niviksha for all the information. I will take a look into that. Thanks!

[xmnlab]

Is there any documentation available?

As it doesn't have any test it has been very challenging the implementation of a new backend.
I am also trying the postgres backend locally (to have it as example), but also having some difficulties to have it working.