Publish Date: 2021.07.08
Features
Kinetica is now also available as a managed application in the Azure Marketplace!
- Streamlined provisioning process simplifies setup and gets you up and running in 30 minutes
- Pay-as-you-go option allows you to pay for what you use, billed through Azure
- Infrastructure provisioned into your Azure subscription, but monitored and managed by Kinetica (Azure Managed Application)
- New Kinetica Workbench simplifies SQL analysis and collaboration (replacing GAdmin)
- Easily ingest data from developer's local environment into Kinetica's marketplace instance
- Easily set up streaming ingestion from Kafka, AWS S3, and Azure blob storage from within Kinetica
- User-Defined Functions (UDFs), Graphs, and ML models can be managed & executed via SQL
- Integrated performance monitoring with Azure Monitor
- One-click upgrades
SQL/OLAP
- Support for streaming from Azure, Kafka, and S3 data sources
- Support for shapefile ingestion
- Added managed credential framework for authenticating to external data sources and model repositories, in SQL and natively
- New SQL commands for managing & executing UDFs
- New SQL commands for managing & querying/matching/solving graphs
- New SQL commands for managing & executing ML models
- Support for looking up specific granted permissions and roles, in SQL and natively
- Improved KiFS and its integration within the database
Geospatial/Network Graph/Visualization
- Enabled distributed solves for name (string) based property graphs
- Added feature attributes to the Vector Tile Service output
- Added new Eulerian Paths solver, useful for fraud detection; see MATCH_LOOPS solver type in /match/graph
- Added graph statistics, including diameter, average valence, clusters, average and maximum cluster sizes available as STATS_ALL solver type in /solve/graph
- Added new Centrality Closeness solver, useful for fraud detection; see CLOSENESS solver type in /solve/graph
- Added max_truck_drop_limit to the Multiple Supply Demand solver
- Added ability to export SVG embedded html output for Multiple Supply Demand solver for real time dynamic simulations with routing animation (speed adjustable for tracking)
- Added API endpoints for creating and retrieving WMS videos; can be overlaid on many basemap providers
- Enabled distributed shortest path solves for non-geospatial graphs
- Added maximum solution targets limit for Centrality and Page Rank solvers for performance tuning
- Various performance improvements and bug fixes
AAW
- Support for ML management & execution commands via SQL
- Automatic completion and teardown of batch mode model jobs
- Improved logging (custom log levels, redirection etc.)
- Server level performance and stability improvements
- More efficient reporting of model running state in user interface
APIs/Tools/Connectors
- Added capability to upload files to Kinetica File System (KiFS) to the Java API
Version 7.1.5
Build Date: 2021.08.13
SQL/OLAP
- New SQL commands for managing files & directories in KiFS
- New SQL command for loading Reveal dashboards from GitHub, Amazon S3, or a local file
- Added support for data sources on public S3 buckets and Azure BLOB stores
- Added data sinks, which are references to external systems that can receive data streamed from Kinetica, in SQL and natively
- Added filter-based triggers for detecting changes in data over time
- Added a default set of libraries for use with Python UDFs
Geospatial/Network Graph/Visualization
- Added graph security
- Ported non-path solvers to work with partitioned graphs
- Added graph elasticity on cloud deployments
APIs/Tools/Connectors
- Added support for uploading & downloading of files from a client using KiSQL
- Added multipart uploading of files to KiFS in the Java API
UI
Workbench
- Enabled multipart file uploading, which removes previous limits on the total file sizes allowed by the drag & drop uploader
- Track & contour rendering options added to Map widget
- Scatter plot chart added as visualization option for SQL query block
Reveal
- UX streamlined with various workflow improvements
