Announcing CloudBase-1.3 release

[Tarandeep Singh <ta...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

We have released 1.3 version of CloudBase on sourceforge-
http://cloudbase.sourceforge.net/

[ CloudBase is a data warehouse system built on top of Hadoop's Map-Reduce
architecture. It uses ANSI SQL as its query language and comes with a JDBC
driver. It is developed by Business.com and is released to the open source
community under GNU GPL license]

Please give it a try and send us your feedback on CloudBase users group-
http://groups.google.com/group/cloudbase-users

Thanks,
Tarandeep

Release notes-
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New Features:

* User Defined Types (UDTs)- User can create new Types and use them to
create table of these types. UDTs are used when data is not structured. User
creates a java class and defines the parsing logic in the constructor. Using
UDT, one can query semi-structured/totally unstructured data using SQL

* Update index- Update index command has been added to update the index when
new data is added to the table.

* CREATE JSON/XML tables- One can create tables on top of one's JSON/XML
data and query them using SQL

Bug fixes:

* DROP table does not drop indexes
* Timestamp part is not shown on Squirrel for DateTime data type
* Range queries not working on Indexed VARCHAR column
* When inserting data to external database, the command would fail if
autocommit is set to true for the database
* CloudBase ignores the case of the external table names.
* Create index do not check if index is already created on the column
* When submitting multiple queries, the previous queries fail

NOTE: One needs to use new driver version (cloudbasejdbc-1.3.jar) to connect
to CloudBase-1.3 If you are using Squirrel, reregister your CloudBase JDBC
Driver.

Online documentation has been updated with new features-
http://cloudbase.sourceforge.net/index.html#userDoc