Installation

Basic Installation

Users can install Prism with pip:

$ pip install --upgrade pip
$ pip install prism-ds

Prism will be installed in Python's bin directory, so make sure this directory is included in your PATH variable.

You can confirm that the project was successfully installed by running which prism in your Terminal emulator.

Python Versions and M1

A quick note on those whose systems have an Apple M1 chip:

Important: for systems with an Apple M1 chip, Prism will only work on Python versions 3.8.10 and above.

Integrations

Prism integrates with a wide variety of third-party developer tools There are two kinds of integrations that Prism supports: adapters, and agents.

Adapters

Adapters allow users to connect to data warehouses or analytics engines. Prism currently supports the following adapters:

AdapterCommand

dbt

pip install "prism-ds[dbt]"

Google BigQuery

pip install "prism-ds[bigquery]"

Postgres

pip install "prism-ds[postgres]"

PrestoDB

pip install "prism-ds[presto]"

PySpark

pip install "prism-ds[pyspark]"

Redshift

pip install "prism-ds[redshift]"

Snowflake

pip install "prism-ds[snowflake]"

Trino

pip install "prism-ds[trino]"

You can learn more about these in the Adapters section.

Agents

Agents allow users to run their projects on external computing environments, e.g., Docker containers, EC2 instances, EMR clusters, and more. Prism currently supports the following agents:

AgentCommand

docker

pip install "prism-ds[docker]"

ec2

N/A - comes with base prism-ds

You can learn more about these in the Agents section.

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