Release Notes

This Release Notes page provides information about recent features, enhancements, and bug fixes for Databend Cloud.

March 21, 2023

New Features

• Introduced a native integration with Metabase: You can now connect to Metabase and create beautiful data visualizations or reports.
• Upgraded databend-query to 1.0.26-nightly:
  • Allowed data transformation when loading data with COPY INTO.
  • Introduced the function ai_to_sql() that converts your natural language instructions to SQL queries.

Enhancements

• Added a purge option for creating a pipeline, allowing automatic purging of ingested files.
• Enhanced the ability to collect real-time data on the usage of warehouses and the size of table storage.
• Optimized the UI prompts for expired plans.

March 14, 2023

New Features

• Upgraded databend-query to v1.0.15-nightly:
  • Improved COPY performance when dealing with large amounts of data files.
  • Added support for REPLACE statement which allows for more efficient data manipulation.
  • Added support for Map type with built-in BloomFilter index which allows for more efficient data retrieval and querying.
• Added AWS us-west-2 region.

Enhancement

• Enlarge the member limit of organization to 5 by default.
• Improved the billing page for better usability.

March 07, 2023

New Features

• Introduced new tools:
  • Flink databend connector: allows Databend to be connected to Flink applications.
  • bend-ingest-kafka enables ingestion of data from Kafka.
• Upgraded databend-query to v1.0.4-nightly:
  • Added support for the decimal data type.
  • Added support for data block cache and query result cache.
  • Optimized memory usage for GROUP BY.
  • Performance improvements.

Enhancements

• Pipe now includes a region option and supports regular full-turn polling reset.

Bug Fixes

• No longer starts a warehouse automatically when a new tenant is created.