[Announce] Apache Kylin 1.6.0 released

[ShaoFeng Shi <sh...@apache.org>]

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The Apache Kylin team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
the 1.6.0 release.

This is a major release after 1.5, with the support for using Apache Kafka
as data source and many enhancements as well as bug fixes; All of the
changes can be found in:
https://kylin.apache.org/docs16/release_notes.html

You can download the source release and binary packages from
https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?path=/kylin/apache-kylin-1.6.0/

More information about the binary packages is on Kylin's download page
https://kylin.apache.org/download/

Apache Kylin is an open source Distributed Analytics Engine designed to
provide SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) on Apache
Hadoop, supporting extremely large datasets.

Apache Kylin lets you query massive data set at sub-second latency in 3
steps:
1. Identify a Star Schema data on Hadoop.
2. Build Cube on Hadoop.
3. Query data with ANSI-SQL and get results in sub-second, via ODBC, JDBC
or RESTful API.

Thanks everyone who have contributed to the 1.6.0 release.

We welcome your help and feedback. For more information on how to
report problems, and to get involved, visit the project website at
https://kylin.apache.org/

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Best regards,

Shaofeng Shi 史少锋