Release 3.x
Archived release notes for release 3.x
Links to 3.x Documentation
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3.6.1 - April 13, 2018
MapD Core
New
Data detection to files imported from S3
Fixed
Multiple fixes and performance improvements to S3 Import to support MapD Cloud
Improved handling of networked file systems, including EFS
Fix memory leak with certain style of select query
MapD Core Rendering Engine
Fixed
Improved multi-GPU/multilayer rendering compositing
MapD Immerse
New
New user interface for loading data to MapD from Amazon S3
Fixed
Fixed an issue with MultiPolygon geoJSON parsing bounds (Choropleth).
3.6.0 - March 13, 2018
MapD Core
New
Enable sharding for (left-deep) outer joins
Added bulkUpdate support for JDBC to support Pentaho
Significant performance improvement on string comparisons from using std::sort
Fixed
Several fixes to auto-completion
Fix to avoid dictionary collisions in multiple databases
export_dashboard works with spaces in dashboard name
Multiple fixes to significantly improve accuracy and performance on APPROX COUNT DISTINCT, for large cardinalities
Fix issue for filter pushdown into expression range calculation when filter results in empty set
Fix broken view from changed underlying tables
ROLLBACK on connection failure with Dictionary server
Revised TColumn->Datum conversion to fix slow selects of array columns
MapD Core Rendering Engine
New
Supports spatial projections in Vega.
Supports running MapD Core in CPU-only mode (with CUDA disabled) with backend rendering enabled if a GPU is available. Requires OpenGL 4.6 or higher.
Add
opacity
,fillOpacity
, andstrokeOpacity
properties to marks so that opacity can be controlled independently of thefillColor
andstrokeColor
literals.
MapD Immerse
New
A new Bar/Line combo chart supports multiple measures. This is currently a BETA feature.
You can export chart data as a CSV file for all frontend-rendered charts.
Fixed
Filtering on timechart with histogram hangs Immerse.
Chart dimension/measurements requirement and logo disappears when hovering.
Text partially cut off in color Legend Item field when hovering.
An Immerse error occurs when dashboard data takes longer to refresh than the auto-refresh time period set in the dashboard.
Scatter plots could render two charts on top of one another.
3.5.0 - February 21, 2018
MapD Core
New
S3 Import:
COPY FROM
now supports directly loading data files (including compressed formats supported in release 3.4) from S3 buckets.KafkaImporter
: MapD can now read delimited rows from Kafka topics using the efficient binary columnar load path.StreamImporter
: New utility with improved streaming reads for data load, using binary columnar load path.Outer join performance improvements.
Autocomplete support in
mapdql
based on newget_completion_hints
Thrift call
Fixed
Multiple issues related to race conditions causing metadata corruption during simultaneous load and query of capped collections
Multiple JDBC-related issues, including missing checkpoints on bulk distributed loads and reporting correct JDBC versions
Edge case of filter qual pushdown causing negative cardinality estimation
Enabled use of hardware accelerated atomics for double-precision aggregates on Volta GPUs
Better exception handling of arrays in shapefile metadata
Fixed exception thrown on
DROP...IF NOT EXISTS
Better error reporting if string dictionary paths not found at startup
startmapd
now passes--config
tomapd_web_server
mapdql: fix LineNoise memory leak
mapdql: Various error handling improvements
MapD Core Rendering Engine
New
Significant performance improvements in rendering datasets with large numbers of polygons
Fixed
Better handling of bad data in shapefiles
MapD Immerse
New
SQL Editor now includes autocomplete and syntax highlighting.
Scatter Plot and Geo Pointmap charts now support aggregations.
Immerse now allows adding additional Mapbox basemap styles and third party map tiles
Community Edition EULA is updated.
Fixed
Skinny histogram charts when using date or time extracts.
Immerse hangs when editing a chart, with the error message “Cannot read property timeBin of null”.
Y-Axis has repeating numbers.
Range chart disappears on clearing color dimension.
Unable to add second layer in multilayer chart on Firefox.
Unable to load chart after adding second multilayer in Geo Heatmap chart on Firefox.
SUM
aggregation for measures in Geo Heatmap chart should not returnCOUNT
.Changing map style before selecting a source prevents selecting source and breaks the Dashboard button.
Extract binning does not work on timestamp.
Empty popups in Pointmap chart.
Dashboards with large number of filters generate bad sql and fail to reload
3.4.0 - January 16, 2018
MapD Core
New
COPY FROM command supports input files compressed with tar, zip, rar, gzip, bzip2, and tgz.
DATE_TRUNC and EXTRACT of YEAR, QUARTER and MONTH are 3-5x faster executing on GPU.
Loading of dictionary-encoded data is 15-30% faster.
“Top K” queries using LIMIT k OFFSET n with k+n < 1000 are optimized to run using k+n memory per GPU and in linear time; not yet enabled for distributed queries.
Allow simple predicates to be used in calculation of expression ranges. This allows for faster GROUP BY when binning by timestamp or numeric expressions if a narrow filter is applied on the same column.
Allow simple predicates with simple casts to be used for skipping fragments.
New initialize “-i” file option is added to SQLImporter.
Add get_completion_hints thrift call to enable friendlier SQL clients.
Add deallocate_df thrift call to deallocate an unused data frame.
Add thrift calls (and mapdql support) for get_tables, get_views, and get_physical_tables.
Speed up t and d in mapdql by requesting only the required metadata.
Add –help-advanced option to mapd_server.
Add thrift calls to set/get table epochs by name.
Fixed
Address issue where LDAP parameters cause mapd_web_server to fail to start by allowing passing LDAP parameters enclosed in double quotes.
Pushdown simple predicates containing casts of TIMESTAMP and INTs into expression range and fragment skip calculations.
Fix issues with operand nullability for time comparisons.
Fix crash on outer cross join.
Add thrift and mapdql commands for get_hardware_info (missing in mapdql help).
Fix possibly nondeterministic result of left outer join.
Sink boolean expression in a projection to its reference in the condition.
Start distributed loads at random leaf to better balance over all nodes.
Allow export/import of Immerse dashboards with spaces in the name.
Change default pagesize from 1M to 2M, add version_num to table metadata.
Recognize and use shared encoding dictionary with IN subqueries, resulting in better performance when inner and outer query use the same dictionary.
Support DECIMAL and NUMERIC for load_table_binary_columnar; improve errors
Fix equi-join on dictionary-encoded columns without shared dictionaries.
Upgrade to JDBC 4.0.
Fix processing of spaces on JDBC inserts.
Return correct count of inserted rows in JDBC executeBatch.
Allow URL format in JDBC driver spec as jdbc:mapd://<hostname:port:db:protocol>.
Fix JDBC DatabaseMetaData to return MapD version, set JDBC driver version.
Fix conversion BOOLEAN to LONG for better Hive support in SQLImporter.
Fix handling of NULL doubles in SQLImporter.
MapD Core Rendering Engine
New
Multi-thread filling poly and aggregate query render giveing a 2-4x performance improvement.
Performance of line rendering has been improved by 25% - 50%
Performance of polygon rendering is significantly faster for large data sets
New command-line option “render-poly-cache-bytes” is added to MapDServer (default 300M).
Allow threshold scale to be used with symbol shape property in Vega render spec.
Fixed
Rendering deals more gracefully with malformed polygons. If simple triangulation fails, a proxy geom will be used in its place. It will first try using a Ramer-Douglas-Peucker simplification algorithm, next will will try to generate a convex hull, and throw an error only if this also fails.
Addresses issue when the only difference between successive render_vega queries is a change between projection and aggregation.
Address issue where Rendering a poly table for the first time with a filtered query crashes server.
Mostly address GL_FRAMEBUFFER_UNSUPPORTED error seen on some older Cuda drivers on Centos.
Fix issue when a multi-GPU non-accumulation render is followed by a single-GPU accumulation render.
Always cache non-in-situ renders for get_result_row_for_pixel hit testing.
MapD Immerse
New
Dashboards can reference multiple data sources.
Geo charts can incorporate multiple layers.
Dashboards can be configured to auto-refresh on a set time interval.
New menu items in Community Edition have been added under Help to request a trial license and manage trial license keys.
Four new Base Map Themes have been added: Odyssey, Vintage, Decimal, and North Star.
Shape selection now is allowed in point maps and scatterplot charts.
A new Top Level menu - Data Manager - has been added.
Fixed
Immerse now allows highlighting and copying a field in a table chart without inadvertently applying a filter.
Text Widget can now save text on Internet Explorer 11.
3.3.1 - November 8, 2017
MapD Core
New
Add initialize file option to SQLImporter
Add thrift apis and mapdql comands for reporting on role/user privileges
Fixed
Fix handling of NULL in loading doubles with SQLImporter
Add export/import dashboard commands to mapdql help
Fix precision for output of decimal to file
Fixed nulls first/last sorting for distributed
Rollback failed table copy from
Reduce checkpoints to once per load, locking table to limit to one concurrent update
Apply reverse distribution to logical arguments
Add optional error percentage argument to APPROX_COUNT_DISTINCT
Move SQL importer to binary columnar format for better performance
Upgrade SQL parser to Calcite 1.14
Dependencies
Now requiring Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.8 or higher
MapD Core Rendering Engine
Fixed
Fix to reduce GL_FRAMEBUFFER_UNSUPPORTED when running older CUDA drivers on CentOS
Fix to render thread shutdown
Fix to error code on framebuffer error
Address mark property update issue when the only thing changing between render calls is sql and render property
Add multijoin and left deep inner join to table scan for rendering
MapD Immerse
New
Add nulls sort first/last to table sort
Fixed
Fix for exception raised when switching from geoheatmap to other chart type
Fix to row and pie chart to set minimum number of groups to one instead of zero
Allow SQL editor to accept SQL statements starting using WITH table expression
3.3.0 - October 26, 2017
MapD Core
New
Improve support for left-deep joins to allow joins of large numbers of tables
Automatically reorder tables in a query by row count
Allow encoding dictionaries to be shared among multiple columns in the same table
Add new mapdql commands to export/import Immerse dashboard definitions
Remove the limit on the number of simultaneous connections
Fixed
Allow object level privileges against multiple databases, still under trial flag
Throw an error if two operands of IN operator don’t have matching types
Allow empty IN operands
Add nested loop code to code generation
Initial pass at internal catalog functions for viewing object privileges
Fix jdbc to not ignore substitution parameter at the end of a query
Add at_most_n parameter to thrift sql_execute endpoint
Fix to join of a column against an expression
Fix for possible CPU heap corruption after memory starvation
Improve error messages on file operation failure
MapD Core Rendering Engine
New
Run all render commands on a dedicated thread, removing connection limit
Add line mark rendering type
MapD Immerse
New
Additional GTM tagging has been included
Improved error reporting on failure to load a dashboard
User logout moved to dropdown by navigation bar, count widget moved under dashboard header
Fixed
In SQL Editor, fixed issue with scrolling
3.2.4 - October 6, 2017
MapD Core
New
Add Thrift call load_binary_table_arrow for Arrow columnar import
Fixed
Fix loading of DECIMAL string with leading decimal point
Create object security tables if feature is enabled
Fix to checkpoint creation on epoch-based table rollback
Read fragment metadata in parallel
Parallelize cold start reload of string dictionary
Fix table rollback by epoch
Fix DECIMAL import for values between -1 and 0
MapD Core Rendering Engine
New
Support rendering of aggregate and projection queries for distributed configuration
Enable rendering where number of render GPU’s is less than query execution GPUs
Fixed
Fix logging of rendering calls
MapD Immerse
New
For Community Edition, added link to the [Community Forum](https://community.mapd.com) under Help
Fixed
Fixed an issue where a line chart filter could not be removed
Fixed an issue with old crossfilter instance preventing opening a new dashboard
Fixed an issue where exceptions/errors prevented histogram and line charts to reload
Fixed an issue with multi-series line chart filter icon not disappearing
Fixed an issue creating a numerical binned multi-series line chart
Fixed an issue where reverting edits on a line chart resulted in error
3.2.3 - September 22, 2017
MapD Core
New
Add support for object privileges, not enabled by default
Add Thrift call for load_table_binary_columnar
Update EULA text
Fixed
Add basic lock protection for drop and truncate table
Fix potential incorrect result for filtered outer join queries
Fix to improve precision in decimal arithmetic
Optimize queries with combinations of equality and null
Fix possible crash on sort of empty result
Fix to bulk import related to decimal scale
Round when reducing decimal scale on import
Write temporary install files to temp directory
Save sample data sets to temp directory during install to reduce required privs
Fix to command line options while inserting sample data
Fix to limit pushdown with offset
Allow case insensitive boolean literals on import
Fix range checking for fixed width encoded strings
Fix possible segfault on outer non-equijoin on string
Fix for distributed query with grouped sort and offset
Fix for null handling in top k queries on a single-fragment table
Fix for self-join query
Fix for possible error on query with empty ranges of type double
Fix join on fixed encoding dictionary columns with nulls
Enable HA in build of MapD Enterprise Edition
MapD Core Rendering Engine
Fixed
Fix for multi-layer rendering in distributed configurations
Improve support for ordinal scales when domain count exceeds range count
Fix for floating point issues with heat map hex binning
Fix for multi-layer rendering with 1 or more accumulation layers
MapD Immerse
New
Update EULA text
Added Google Tag Manager for product usage tracking
3.2.2 - September 9, 2017
MapD Core
New
Equi-joins between expressions and columns are now supported
Joins on time and date are now supported
Non-grouped projected top-k queries of form
order by col limit n
are now executed more efficientlyPerformance improvement for grouped top-k queries on sharded tables
Fixed
Fix for projection query with order by a float column not used in a filter
Fix for null pointer exception in
PreparedStatement
(https://github.com/mapd/mapd-core/pull/53)Fixes for conditions of potential arithmetic overflow
Fix for segfault on natural join, or join explicitly including rowid
Gracefully return exception on scalar subquery returning text
Fix for failure to execute join query against an empty table
Fix for failure to execute a query with parenthesis around ilike condition
Fix to enable some cases of reordering joined tables improve performance
MapD Core Rendering Engine
New
Symbols now work with multi-layer rendering
Add support for GPU rendering with EGL on IBM Power
Fixed
Fix blend accumulator type mismatch bug
Issue resolved for potential crash with geo-heatmap render
Various vega symbol update issues
MapD Immerse
New
New chart type : Text Widget
Alias for custom measures and custom dimensions
Geo heatmap (available on single node only)
Fixed
Range chart is now OFF by default
“Back to Dashboard” link is now aligned on browser resize
3.2.1 - August 25, 2017
MapD Core
New
allow group by floating point column, even if watchdog is enabled
allow one-to-many join on multiple columns
Fixed
fix for overflow detection for fixed encoding dictionary entry creation
disallow multi-node export, for now
fix for subquery with a CASE statement inside a derived table returning a non-grouped column
explicitly disallow LIMIT 0
fix for query with sort on a dictionary encoded field containing null values
add progressive backoff to mapdql connect retries and limit retries
MapD Core Rendering Engine
New
enable multi-sampling for smoother rendering
Fixed
Use correct cuda context index during EGL compositing
Fixing active gl context bug during distributed rendering
MapD Immerse
New
Allow switching between donut and pie chart styles for pie chart
Top level Help has one new menu item for Immerse tutorials
Declining EULA in community edition disconnects user
Default aggregation on time unit measures is MAX
Fixed
Fixed spinner on incorrect custom dimension expression
Fix for switching series dimension in a line chart or histogram to reflect new dimension
Number chart no longer exposes show range chart toggle
Fixed isue with histogram range bar width
Multi-series range chart colors are no longer reset when range chart is toggled off/on
3.2.0 - August 17, 2017
MapD Core
New
Tables now can be sharded by a numeric or dictionary encoded column
Dictionaries for encoded columns can be shared across multiple tables
Multi-column join is allowed provided combination of columns yields a unique join key
Tables can be joined on columns of type BIGINT, provided the column yields a unique join key
Join now allows the one-to-many case, with uniqueness in the outer table
TRUNCATE TABLE command is now supported
MapD startup has an optional parameter for maximum error for APPROX_COUNT_DISTINCT
Data import via COPY now reports on specific location of bad data
COPY TO now supports relative path names
MapD Server now defaults to ignore divide by zero
Fixed
Max string length of 32767 is now enforced
Trailing semicolon is automatically removed from SQL or SQL inside a view
Incorrect result fixed for selecting with a filter from a join view
Incorrect result fixed with LEFT JOIN resulting in a cross join
Fix issue with precision of APPROX_COUNT_DISTINCT when running on CPU
Fix issue with join on empty inner table
Fix issue with database.table syntax
Fix for possible race condition in distributed queries causing query hang
MapD Core Rendering Engine
New
Improved anti-aliasing using multi-sampling, most noticable stroking polys or symbols < 2 pixels wide
Allow dictionary-encoded string columns from geo polygon tables to be used as domains in ordinal scales
Added set of new extension functions as helpers for hexagonal headmap binning and rendering
Symbols now can be used in accumulation rendering
Fixed
Symbols that are both filled and stroked now render in the appropriate oder
Fix issue when using values from a dictionary encoded string column in an ordinal scale when rendering a GROUP BY query
Fix for crash when trying to render a GROUP BY query also sorted with ORDER BY
MapD Immerse
New
Top level Help has one additional menu item that displays core version, immerse version and whether backend rendering is enabled.
Dimension lock axes on histogram and line charts.
Range charts for histograms
Stacked histogram charts
Fixed
Issue with line chart date fields don’t reflect filter dates after clearing filter
Issue where brushing on initialized chart (Range/Line/Histogram) will extend brush filter beyond what is selected
Issue where multiple range charts and focus charts created when changing chart type
Issue where range chart with multi-series changes color of range chart when brushing range
Issue with Time entry box for line chart not applying time filter
Bug where Line chart does not cancel changes when switching from binning to extract and clicking cancel
Multi-series line chart loses color when going to and from SQL editor
Uncaught TypeError - Cannot read property ‘dimensions’ of undefined when creating a line chart
3.1.3 - July 27, 2017
MapD Core
New
Improved support for
INTERVAL
data type, and added functions forTIMESTAMPADD
,TIMESTAMPDIFF
,DATEADD
,DATEDIFF
andDATEPART
. For example the following two queries can now be run, which would give equivalent results:
Fixed
NULL now does not match other values (e.g. another NULL) in hash joins
Crash in cpu mode when a hash join inner table column is all NULLs
Crash when
LIKE
orREGEXP_LIKE
pattern is not a literalProblem with loading through aggregator in multi-node setups when table contains non-encoded strings or arrays
MapD Core Rendering Engine
Fixed
Bug when using dict-encoded string column as color when rendering a
GROUP BY
queryCrash when using a heatmap query with a
LIMIT
MapD Immerse
New
SQL Editor Reference panel for tables and columns
Fixed
Issue with Number chart not removing old charts when changing aggregation type
3.1.2 - July 19, 2017
MapD Core
New
Division by zero behavior is now configurable via flag
null-div-by-zero
. New installs usingsystemd
will default totrue
in their config files, meaning that division by zero returnsnull
; existing installs will default tofalse
, preserving the existing behavior of throwing adivision by zero
exception.round_to_digit(x,y)
function now supported. Roundsx
toy
digits.Dictionary encoded columns may now be specified for the
sql_execute_gpudf
endpointFast versions of statistics functions are now available. Note that these functions might overflow; use single precision float instead of double precision.
STDDEV_FLOAT
,STDDEV_POP_FLOAT
,STDDEV_SAMP_FLOAT
,VARIANCE_FLOAT
,VAR_POP_FLOAT
,VAR_SAMP_FLOAT
,CORRELATION_FLOAT
,CORR_FLOAT
,COVAR_POP_FLOAT
,COVAR_SAMP_FLOAT
Avoid overflows for most literal arithmetic expressions
Fixed
Crash with certain join queries when inner table is empty
Incorrect results on order by non-encoded string with filter applied on that column
Incorrect detection of overflow when multiplying decimals with negative numbers
Dictionary folders are now dropped in multi-node setups when tables are dropped
SUM
andAVG
overflows for tables with more than 4B rowsCrash on grouped
COUNT(DISTINCT)
in multi-node setupsCrash on join query when column contains all nulls
MapD Core Rendering Engine
New
Vega API now supports ability to render non-projection (
GROUP BY
) queriesAdded new ExtensionFunction
rect_pixel_bin
as a helper for rectangular heatmap binningNew
symbol
vega mark type. Supports circle, square, diamond, cross, triangles, and hexagonsAdded support for a new percent accumulation type, which allows a region to be colored based on one category’s percent of all results at that location.
Fixed
Fix vega update issue when mark property references new data and nothing else changes.
MapD Immerse
New
Added Custom SQL Dimension feature, allowing SQL to be used to form dimensions
STDDEV
now available in UI as an aggregate typeImmerse now displays End User License Agreement when product is accessed for first time from Community Edition
Fixed
Issue with pointmap and scatterplot charts, where chart image is larger than the chart widget size
Issue with widgets shifting on dashboard after changing browser window size then restoring to original size
Issue when using custom measure on Scatterplot chart
Values between -1 and 1 now display in a typical decimal format rather than with “m” abbreviation
Incorrect behavior for points auto-sizing and manual sizing (pointmap and scatterplot)
3.1.1 - June 26, 2017
MapD Core
New
Multi-column hash joins now work provided the dimension table has unique composite keys
Loop join is now automatically allowed for inner tables with up to 1,000 rows
Improved performance for
LIKE
/ILIKE
operations on dictionary-encoded columnsImproved performance for
COUNT(DISTINCT)
andAPPROX_COUNT_DISTINCT
for low cardinalitiesEnhanced SQLimporter compatibility and performance with PostgreSQL
StreamInserter now offers
—-quoted
flag which, when set to true, removes any double-quotes in the output
Fixed
Due to an issue with the current release of glibc on many operating systems, we have moved away from a JNI interface to Calcite to avoid segfaults
Better support for batch JDBC insert (statements are no longer case sensitive)
Fix for possible race condition when using popups on a rendered chart in a distributed system
Import improvements around column detection and reject row summary
Improved error messages around user management commands
Eliminated overflow when comparing integers with high-precision decimals
Now recording rejected rows properly in case of Overflow
Now dropping string dictionaries for
DROP TABLE
in distributed caseIssue with
AVG(float)
when number of records is >2B
MapD Core Rendering Engine
No notes this release
MapD Immerse
New
Chart y-axis height can now be capped using a control on the axis, for example to exclude outliers from view. Data is not filtered from the dataset, but merely excluded from view.
X and Y axes for dc charts can now have their labels edited, allowing for friendly names
SQL editor beta now offers a command-line style interface with query history
Fixed
No longer incorrectly showing non-encoded strings as available Dimension columns
3.1.0.1 - June 22, 2017
This point release addresses an issue introduced in recent version of glibc. JNI fails with a segfault after the operating system had been updated. This release fixes that issue by removing the JNI usage.
3.1.0 - June 15, 2017
MapD Core for single-node usage has been open sourced under the Apache 2.0 license (https://github.com/mapd/mapd-core/blob/master/LICENSE.md). Code available at https://github.com/mapd/mapd-core . EULA at https://www.mapd.com/legal/
MapD Core
New
Initial API support for GOAI consortium (http://gpuopenanalytics.com/). New Thrift API endpoint (
sql_execute_gpudf
) creates a query resultset on the GPU in Arrow format and returns a handle. Other GPU kernels can work directly on the data via the returned handle, reducing the data movement normally associated with staged operations.Improved initial GPU memory load times by more fully utilizing available PCIE bandwidth
Now supporting
COVAR_POP
,COVAR_SAMP
,CORR
Performance for certain complex subqueries, for large
IN
subqueries for multi-node environments, and forMIN
on a nullable float or intFloat performance improvement on
AVG
/SUM
/MIN
/MAX
aggregatesMulti-way
JOIN
queries now use memory more efficiently
Fixed
Issue where sorting
GROUP BY
andAVG
through view of aJOIN
query returns results in non-sorted orderProblem where in some cases
--allow-cpu-retry
flag would not fall back to CPUNow correctly returning list of columns for views
Crash on
CREATE TABLE AS SELECT
whenSELECT
statement returns no rowsIncorrect results when doing
MAX
on a float in some casesIssue with accuracy of results with drawn polygon filters
AVG
andSUM
on float now supported on Kepler GPUsAllow execution on GPUs for queries larger than can fit in GPU memory when
--enable-watchdog
flag is set to falseFurther overflow detection for decimal type
Improved precision of numeric on initial load
Reduce data transfer to GPU memory when not required
COUNT(DISTINCT)
on allNULL
now returns correct (empty) result
MapD Core Rendering Engine
New
Default rendering now done through EGL. No longer dependent on Xorg
Multi-layered points/polygons can now be rendered in multi-node environments
Now using blosc/zstd compression for passing image data between nodes
Accumulation rendering now supported in multi-node environments
Fixed
Incorrect darkening of color for images with transparent colors composited on multiple GPUs/nodes
Issue with re-initializing counts for accumulation rendering when rendering a new frame
Issue with layers incorrectly persisting from one frame to another when number of layers changes from frame to frame
Problem with EGL compositing in multi-node environments
Error on accumulation rendering when using
POW
scaleErrors with removal of polygons from cache
Bugs when rendering polygons against empty query results
Issue when coloring by dictionary encoded string when string is in inner table of a joined query
Accumulation rendering crash when data from query doesn’t span the compositor’s gpu
Now not throwing error when fill/stroke is turned off between successive render frames
Fixed shader compile issue when updating the data reference for a packed color vega property
MapD Immerse
New
Pointmap basemap themes can now be changed
Raster charts can now render with a density color gradient (represents the number of points stacked at each pixel)
Chart axis labels can now be edited
Fixed
Various issues with the scatter chart
3.0.0 - April 26, 2017
This version introduces a change in the Thrift API which breaks compatibility between 3.0 servers/clients and older servers/clients. Users with custom Thrift clients will need to re-run Thrift to generate the update client libraries.
The deprecated v.1 Immerse is no longer available as of this release. Attempts to access v.1 dashboard links will lead to a 404 message.
To use MapD Core Rendering Engine, CentOS and Redhat users must upgrade to CUDA driver version 375.51 or later.
The
--disable-rendering
flag has been changed to be--rendering=false
MapD Core
New
Native distributed scale-out capability, allowing deployment of the MapD Core database across a cluster of GPU machines
Native ODBC support, enabling MapD Core to be connected to 3rd party clients
VARIANCE
STDDEV_POP`` and ``STDDEV_SAMPLE
Support for more groups in multi-column
GROUP BY
queries (40m - 60m groups)Up to 10x performance improvement for
IN
subqueries with many values. Additional small performance improvement forIN
queries with at most 3 values.Ability to have 3+ way
JOIN
on a conjunction of equality expressions when each of them is one-to-oneNow offering ability to specify commonly used columns to be loaded from disk at database startup time
Supporting HH:MM time format for file import
Fixed
Issue where
HAVING IS NOT NULL
wasn’t applied to date extraction/truncation expressionsIssue with 3-way
JOIN using
star schemaFix import correctness issues when rows are rejected
Issue where non-grouped queries returned incorrect number instead of
NULL
when no rows match forMAX
/MIN
aggregatesIssue with potential corruption during overlapping parallel loads to single table
Issue where column metadata for
VIEW
/s would show the term “Explanation” instead of proper metadata
MapD Core Rendering Engine
New
Rendering now uses EGL instead of GLX, removing the Xorg requirement
Fixed
Crash when rendering
JOIN
queries
MapD Immerse
New
Dimension axis now dynamically updates during cross-filtering to maintain fine granularity as data ranges get smaller
Fixed
Issue with Line/Histogram chart where brushing range would extend filter beyond what is selected
Chart spinners, used to indicate network wait time, are now less intrusive and appear/disappear more quickly
Restricting arrays from being selectable as dimensions/measures when not available, and visually indicating them more clearly
Certain problems with handling
NULL
Certain problems with shape selector tools
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