o GENERAL FEATURES, ARCHITECTURE & METAMODEL CHANGES:
- Updated MIMB Web Services which are now based on REST API technology (i.e. therefore removing any security vulnerabilities of the older Axis technology)
- New MIMB Model Change Management SDK allows to compare the metadata of a newly imported model with a previously imported one in order to detect any change. This new comparison feature enables support for metadata version management to any Metadata Management MM applications based on MIMB for metadata harvesting. Such MM applications can now avoid creating unnecessary new versions of models if the source metadata (e.g. a database, or data model) has not changed since the last automatically scheduled metadata harvesting.
o DATA STORES (Flat files, RDBMS, Cloud Databases, Big Data / Hadoop):
- Major SQL Parsing improvements, especially in Stored Procedures and SQL scripts
- New Bridges:
· Amazon Web Services AWS) RedShift Database import
· Apache Cassandra import (including from DataStax Enterprise)
· JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) file import (beta bridge)
· MongoDB import (beta bridge)
· Flat File Database (CSV or Excel) import (beta bridge)
· Database SQL Script import
(beta bridge)
. Teradata Database SQL Script (BTEQ) import (beta
bridge)
· Database SQL DDL import (beta
bridge)
. Apache Hadoop HiveQL DDL import (including from Cloudera,
Hortonworks, MapR, etc.)
. Oracle Database SQL Script (BTEQ) import
(beta bridge)
o DATA MODELING (DM):
· Minor bug fixes in popular data modeling tool bridges
o DATA INTEGRATION (DI/ETL/ELT/DQ/MDM/EII):
- Major redesign of all DI/ETL/ELT based upon a more universal DI metamodel which better supports the new generations of DI tools while reducing the volume of metadata. Consequently most DI/ETL/ELT bridges now import much faster (some of them twice as fast), without loosing any DI/ETL/ELT design or data flow lineage details.
- New Bridges:
· Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) (Repository Database) import bridge
· Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) 2014 import bridge
o BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE (BI/OLAP):
- Improved Bridges:
· IBM Cognos Content Manager with PowerPlay Transformer import bridge major improvements to better support lineage for cubes
· MicroStrategy import bridge major improvements for scalability and protection against broken/corrupted reports
· Tableau import bridge major improvements to better support massive amounts of database or file connections (popular in self service BI)