1.7.9 (Released on August 12th, 2020)
Overview
The version - V1.7.9 - of Indexima is now available.
This version offers new features :
Easy to use
- A new load file assistant has been added to Indexima. It let you load your files without writing any SQL, from all your filesystems.
Easy to adopt
- SQL Command
COMPACT TABLE
allows you to increase request throughput and reduce memory consumption when data is frequently deleted. - The startup time of an Indexima cluster has been reduced in order to raise updates and reboot.
Easy to implement
- Indexima now supports external tables on Oracle Database. It avoids copying data while maintaining a response time below a second.
- External table support on Snowflake, Google BigQuery, and Apache Impala has been improved in order to support more functions and their parameters.
Useful links
- Download version 1.7.9
- Migrate from 1.7.8 to 1.7.9
- Procedure for upgrading Galactica (Indexima core)
- Procedure for upgrading Developer Console (VisualDoop2)
Release Note for the Indexima version 1.7.9
In Details
Core
- INDXMA-4771: Warehouse loading has been speeding up to reduce the duration of cluster unavailability during an upgrade or a restart
- INDXMA-4766 (ZenD #604): Add support for field and expression in GROUP BY even if they are not in the SELECT clause.
- INDXMA-4649: The SQL Dev Console UI has been reworked to be more user-friendly.
- INDXMA-4608: Table creation now allows you to specify the
timestamp.precision
, instead of being global.
External tables
- INDXMA-4821: Oracle Database is now supported as an external table.
- INDXMA-4783: Queries support on Snowflake, Google BigQuery, and Apache Impala has been improved.
- INDXMA-4839: File supported_dbs.json now allows you to add default JDBC parameters. This way, they will always be available when you create an external table from the wizard.
- INDXMA-4836:
SHOW CREATE TABLE
now displays calculated fields.
Governance
- INDXMA-4832: Reinit operation can be launched without reloading tables, leading to instant cluster availability.
- INDXMA-4830: A load assistant has been added to the Dev Console. It lets you load your data without writing any SQL command.
- INDXMA-4770: A new SQL instruction lets you compact your table. Compacting a table is useful when a lot of DELETE/LOAD operations have been run on it.
Miscellaneous
- INDXMA-4795: Analyzer UI has been softly reworked to be more user-friendly.
- INDXMA-4713 (ZenD #598): Parameters
result.max_size
andglobal.result.max_size
now takes care of subqueries. - INDXMA-4703 (ZenD #590): Passwords are now hidden when the query has a parsing error.
- INDXMA-4816: Parameter
limit.select
has been removed. - INDXMA-4852: Join computation memory consumption can now be limited to
join.memory.max_size
.
Bug Fixes
- INDXMA-4842 (ZenD #630): Quotes on alias didn't support lowercase or uppercase
- INDXMA-4793 (ZenD #620): In YARN deployment folders like
${sys:hive.log.dir}
could be created at startup. - INDXMA-4650 (ZenD #523): In some cases, indexes are pickup when they shouldn't.