Each new version of Omnidex brings a collection of improvements, from new features to increased performance. Here are the primary features and enhancements in the major releases of Omnidex:

The following table shows the individual releases of Omnidex 5.2, including their release dates and features.

Release Date: Planned for 2011)

• Omnidex now supports, real-time connection and query monitoring.

• Support for DISTINCT_KEY optimization

• Broader support for connection strings throughout Omnidex
• Support for local and remote environment variables in connection strings
• Support for connection options in connection strings

• Support for ROLLUP nodes, distinct from UNPARTITIONED nodes
• Support for UNINDEXED clause
• Support for REQUIRED_OPTIMIZATION=NO_GRID_AGGREGATIONS
• Support for Connection Pooling for grids
• Support for a thin grid client-server relationship
• Possible: Support for taking nodes online and offline
• Possible: Support for clustered grids

• Support for three editions of Omnidex:
  • Omnidex Enterprise Edition
  • Omnidex Developer Edition
  • Omnidex Trial Edition
• License all database drivers and optimization options for each edition
• Support for SHOW LICENSE, REQUEST LICENSE and REGISTER LICENSE commands
• Possible: Support for licensing validation via DISC website

• Improved support for Read-Only Filesystems
• Support for $GETENV function
• Support for more functions used in the ORDER BY clause.
• Support for timezones.
• Improved support for paths and filenames containing spaces
• Support for [NO_]CACHEHDC optimization
• Support for CACHE= on queries?
• Possible: Support for PowerSearch option

• Improved support for Pentaho
• EXTRACT DDL FROM <ORACLE | SQLSERVER | MYSQL | ODBC>
• Use correct number of bytes on national character sets
• Support for LOAD OFX FOR <ENVIRONMENT | DATABASE>.
• Possible: Support for HDFS files

• Support for “odxnet –shutdown –children_only” to terminate child processes without terminating listener.

• ODBC Driver registration
  • Change default ODBC Driver name from “DISC OMNIDEX OdxNet Driver” to “Omnidex”, but allow installation of dual names for backward compatibility with “odbcreg -b” option
• The NODE clause within the CREATE ENVIRONMENT statement now uses ConnectionString rather than Environment for specifying remote node locations.
• Change MDK_RETRIEVAL_THRESHOLD to QUALIFICATION_THRESHOLD and change ASK_RETRIEVAL_THRESHOLD to AGGREGATION_THRESHOLD.
• Correct spelling of MaxSonProcesses in odxnet configuration files.
• Statistics files are now required to use optimization.
• Change TDF files to DELIMITED files, though TDF is still an accepted synonym.
• Change FLATFILE database types to FILE database types, though FLATFILE is still a supported synonym.
• Change C STRING datatypes to STRING datatypes, though C STRING is still a supported synonym.
• Dates are now left justified when Omnidex converts them to string format.

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