What's new in the v1.2 series release

Databend v1.2 was officially released on June 29, 2023! Thanks to all the community partners who participated and to everyone who contributed to making Databend better!

To learn more about this release, please refer to this blog post for details. You can also find the full changelog of this release on GitHub.

New Features and Enhancements

• New Data Type: BITMAP
• Direct Query of CSV/TSV/NDJSON Files Using Column Position
• New Hash Table: Improved Hash Join Performance
• AI Functions

Enterprise Features

• Computed Columns
• VACUUM TABLE
• Serverless Background Service

Growing Ecosystem

• Bind databend into Python
• BendSQL - Databend Native Command Line Tool
• Data Integration & Business Intelligence:
  • Apache DolphinScheduler
  • Apache Flink CDC
  • Tableau

New Contributors

• @neil4dong made their first contribution in #11043
• @JackTan25 made their first contribution in #11290
• @Mehrbod2002 made their first contribution in #11367
• @DongHaowen made their first contribution in #11362
• @silver-ymz made their first contribution in #11487
• @Jake-00 made their first contribution in #11503
• @gitccl made their first contribution in #11507
• @ZhengLin-Li made their first contribution in #11563
• @jonahgao made their first contribution in #11718
• @akoshchiy made their first contribution in #11783

Try Databend Now!

Click here to open the release page on GitHub, and then select and download the version suitable for your platform.

To deploy Databend, follow the Deployment Guide.