OrientDB 1.7 is out!
Tue, 05/27/2014 - 00:41
Breaking news: OrientDB 1.7 is out! We made OrientDB faster than before and with new exciting features like Distributed Sharding, the support for Lucene indexes (Full-Text and GEO-Spatial), SSL connections, Parallel queries and more.
To download OrientDB 1.7 go to: http://www.orientechnologies.com/download/
What's new?
Core
- New “minimumclusters” to auto-create X clusters per class
- New cluster strategy to pick the cluster. Available round-robin, default and balanced
- Added record locking via API
- Removed rw/locks on schema and index manager
- Cached most used users and roles in RAM (configurable)
Server
- New support for SSL connections on binary and HTTP protocols
Studio
- Bookmarks for queries
- Ability to interrupt running commands
Console
- New “script” command to execute multiple SQL statements + transaction control
- New “next” command to move the cursor on the next record in the result set
- New “pref” command to move the cursor on the previous record in the result set
- New “move ” command to move from current record by executing a predicate
- New “eval ” command to evaluate a predicate against current record
- Ability to ignore errors by setting “set ignore = true”
Distributed
- New support for Sharding
- Simplified (JSON) configuration
Graph
- New functions to return the traversed items: traversedVertex(), traversedEdge() and traversedElement()
- Method addEdge() can takes ORID to use implicitly last record version
SQL
- New PARALLEL keyword to run the query on multiple threads
- New “INSERT INTO … SELECT” to copy records
- New “INSERT INTO … RETURN ” to return expressions on INSERT
- New “UPDATE … RETURN ” to return expressions on UPDATE
- Function distance() accepts measure unit (default = km)
HTTP
- Added support for context variables in SCRIPT command
Indexes
- Added Full-Text Lucene indexes (as plugin)
- Added GEO Spatial Lucene indexes (as plugin)
- Added WAL (Journal) support for Hash-Index so can be used in Transactions
- Added NULL support for composite and non-composite indexes
- Full-Text can be configured through METADATA keyword
- Full-Text now indexes also sub-words
- Improved SQL optimizer by avoiding calling evaluate() when not needed
- LINKSET types can be indexed now
- RID can be used on composite indexes
