About preview features
Imply Long Term Support (LTS) releases and Short Term Support (STS) releases include preview features that are at one of two possible lifecycle stages:
Alpha: An alpha feature may include major bugs or performance issues. It may also be otherwise feature-limited. Alpha features are not ready for production use, but are instead suitable for feature previews and learning environments.
Alpha features may be subject to significant changes or removal without prior notice.
Beta: Beta features should be suitable for production scenarios. However, you should only enable a beta feature after testing in a staging environment. When you feel comfortable to move to production, enable beta features in closely-monitored scenarios.
Imply Druid preview features
For preview Imply Druid features, refer to individual feature documentation for instructions to enable the feature.
Preview features that drive customer workflows and use cases in Imply's distribution of Druid include:
- Apache Kafka extraction namespace (alpha)
- ARRAY_AGG (alpha)
- Asynchronous downloads (GA for Imply Enterprise; beta for all others)
- Avro extension (beta)
- Automated metadata store cleanup (beta)
- Bloom filter extension (beta)
- Confluent schema registry ingestion support (alpha)
- Changing segment granularity in automatic compaction - finer to coarser only (alpha)
- Dynamic auto scaling for Kinesis (alpha)
- Dynamic config provider (alpha)
- Imply View Manager (alpha)
- Indexer process (alpha)
- Indexed tables (alpha)
- IPv6 addresses (alpha)
- Kafka input format (alpha)
- Kerberos (beta)
- Microsoft Azure extension (beta)
- Multi-dimension partitioning (alpha)
- Replace existing segments using tombstones (beta)
- Rollup during automatic compaction (alpha)
- Row and Column security (alpha)
- SQL-compatible null handling (alpha)
- SQL query cancelling (alpha)
Preview developer-facing features, including ones that may support customer workflows include:
- Enhanced query planning for correlated subqueries (beta)
- Expression Aggregator (alpha)
- Segment locking (alpha)
- Segment-level caching on the broker (beta)
Pivot preview features
Preview features can be individually enabled or disabled in the Pivot UI. See Feature flags for more information.
Preview features in Pivot include:
- Asynchronous downloads (GA for Imply Enterprise; beta for all others)
- Batch dashboard updates (alpha)
- Embedded visualizations (alpha)
- Error notifications (alpha)
- Event annotations (alpha)
- Explain (alpha)
Imply platform preview features
Preview features in Imply Platform include: