Rather than throwing hardware at data warehousing problems by relying on expensive clusters or specialized "appliances", the scalability offered by LucidDB's unique architecture allows you to achieve great performance using only a single off-the-shelf Linux or Windows server. Besides keeping costs down, this also minimizes maintenance and administration hassles.
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Project News
16-Jun-2010: Release 0.9.3 is now available. This release debuts ports for Mac OS/X and 64-bit Windows; also included are a number of new features such as SQL/J deployment descriptors and various applib routines, plus enablement for HTTP-based bulk load from Pentaho Data Integration.
25-Oct-2009: A big welcome to Dynamo BI as a new corporate sponsor for the LucidDB project! Read the announcement on the mailing list.
24-Oct-2009: Release 0.9.2 is now available. This is a maintenance release, with new features for HTTP client/server support and catalog-based password authentication.
8-Oct-2009: The PG2LucidDB bridge is now available, enabling access to LucidDB from just about any client environment! View the announcement and get the code here.
6-Jul-2009: An ADO.NET managed provider is now available for use from .net on Windows and Mono on Linux! View the announcement and get the code here.
24-May-2009: Release 0.9.1 is now available. This is a maintenance release with a few critical bugfixes.
22-Apr-2009: Release 0.9.0 is now available. Major new features include UNICODE support, ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN, UPDATE, and related upsert optimizations. John Sichi is giving a LucidDB talk at the Percona Performance Conference on April 23.
13-Dec-2008: A Pentaho Data Integration plugin for LucidDB bulk load is now available.
12-Nov-2008: Release 0.8.0 is now available. Major new features include warehouse labels and hot/incremental backup.
19-Oct-2008: An automatic Mondrian aggregate table designer add-on for the 0.7.4 release is now available.
16-Jul-2008: Release 0.7.4 is now available. This is primarily a maintenance release, but new features include support for constant reduction of uncorrelated subqueries by the optimizer, as well as a number of new UDX's. Benchmark results are being presented at OSCON 2008.
22-Mar-2008: Release 0.7.3 is now available. The major new feature in this release is intelligent prefetch for all access paths; together with improvements in data caching and asynchronous I/O, these provide improved performance when accessing large amounts of data on disk.
17-Dec-2007: We're looking for LucidDB users who are able to act as references for a report on open-source data warehousing. If you are using LucidDB and can share your experience, please let us know at the users mailing list.
23-Nov-2007: Release 0.7.2 is now available. The major new feature in this release is the ESTIMATE STATISTICS clause for faster ANALYZE TABLE. The TABLESAMPLE query construct is provided as a companion feature.
18-Aug-2007: Release 0.7.1 is now available. Major new features include nested loop join support (used for implementing arbitrary outer join conditions) and Mondrian source replication.
8-Jun-2007: Release 0.7.0 is now available, with support for a number of major new features: