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 is planned for 2011.

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

• Omnidex now supports AutoComplete, a feature that allows applications to display relevant choices and their counts as the user types characters into a search field.

• Omnidex now provides broad support for connection strings throughout the product. Connection string provide a simple and universal way of connecting to an Omnidex Environment File.

• Omnidex Grids now allow a new node type called Rollup Nodes that are used to support Omnidex Rollup Tables that span all nodes. Customers that have previously used Unpartitioned Nodes for this purpose should switch to Rollup Tables to improve the performance of building indexes.
• Omnidex Grids now support an UNINDEXED option within the NODE clause of the CREATE TABLE statement. This clause indicates that the table should not be indexed for a particular node. This is often used in Rollup Nodes to avoid the indexing of the tables that underlay rollup tables.
• Omnidex Grids now support Grid Connection Pooling, designed specifically for a grid environment. Connection pooling supports a grid by intelligently obtaining and releasing connections to the nodes in a common pool, increasing performance and reduces resource usage.

• Omnidex now supports three product editions.
• Support for three editions of Omnidex:
  • The Omnidex Enterprise Edition is unrestricted in features, database size and concurrent connections. Omnidex Enterprise Edition is appropriate for production applications, as well as large-scale development and testing.
  • Omnidex Developer Edition supports all features of Omnidex, although it is limited in the size of the database and the number of concurrent connections. Omnidex Developer Edition can be downloaded free of charge, and is ideal for general development and testing.
  • The Omnidex Trial Edition is unrestricted in features, database size and concurrent connections, but is limited to 30 days. Omnidex Trial Edition is appropriate for evaluating Omnidex in a large-scale development and testing environment.
• Omnidex licensing has been streamlined through three new commands in OdxSQL:
  • The request_license command allows users to request a license for their Omnidex product.
  • The register_license command allows users to register a license for their Omnidex product.
  • The show_license command allows users to display the current license for their Omnidex product.

• Omnidex now supports timezones when working with date-class datatypes.
• Omnidex now supports the $GETENV function for referencing environment variables in Omnidex SQL statements.
• Omnidex now supports spaces in filenames and directory names throughout the Omnidex product on Microsoft Windows operating systems.
• Omnidex now allows the memory used in the Hashed Data Cache to be configured on a per-query basis using the DATA_CACHE= option.

• Omnidex now allows DDL statements to be extracted directly from relational databases using the EXTRACT SQL statement. This replaces the similar feature that was previously found in the legacy program, OAHELPER.
• Omnidex's JDBC driver has been enhanced to support thePentaho suite of Business Intelligence tools.

• 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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