Arcadia Enterprise 4.2.0.0
(ArcViz 4.2.0.0, ArcEngine 2.9.1)
This document contains release notes for Arcadia Enterprise.
It is accurate at the time of publication. Arcadia Data updates release notes periodically after the software release.
To see our certification matrix, read Certifications.
To see the catalog of known issues that we are tracking, read Known Issues.
For the rest of the changes, see the following sections of these release notes:
ArcViz Release 4.2.0.0 includes the following groups of improvements:
Starting with this release, workspaces create a new functional organizational and security level for working with dashboards. See our discussion of this powerful feature in Working with Workspaces.
You can now clone dashboards, and also move them between workspaces. Additionally, dashboards support multiple sheets for organizing visual artifacts. See our documentation on Working with Dashboards.
Dashboard sheets organize all related visuals on a single screen. Having multiple sheets in the same dashboard enables you to design comprehensive dashboards and categorize the information along distinct lines of enquiry, simultaneously. See the documentation on Working with Sheets.
Starting with this release, visuals can no longer exist on their own; instead, they are automatically part of a dashboard.
All new visuals and dashboards are private, until the user shares them either by adding them to the Public workspace, or by publishing to a specific workspace with defined role-based access.
When you migrate to this release, you may notice that Arcadia Enterprise changed your standalone visuals by wrapping them inside a sheet, inside a dashboard. If you previously used a visual in multiple dashboards, we migrated it as a linked visual.
To reuse highly effective visuals, you can mark them as Linked, making them visible to all dashboards in the workspace. See Visuals.
The Key Performance Indicator (KPI) visual type replaces the Single Value visual, and provides an insightful and highly configurable summary report.
See KPI Visuals and KPI Settings.
In this release, Arcadia Enterprise makes suggestions that optimize your development work:
Place the relevant fields on the shelves of the visual, click the Explore Visuals option at the top of the Visual catalog, and Arcadia Enterprise offers you broad range of visual options. Use the one that supports your business case – vertical or horizontal bars, trellised measures, grouped bars, combo charts, packed bubbles, line dimensions, and many more.
Click Explore Colors, and Arcadia Enterprise renders your visuals and dashboards in a variety of palette options, so you can select the ones that work best in your dashboard.
When you Explore Settings Arcadia Enterprise suggests setting options such as bar width, grid lines, labels, and so on.
Explore Styles suggests alternate fonts, font sizes, and other formatting options.
Starting with this release, Arcadia Enterprise supports the use of
complex data type fields through Impala and Arcadia connections. We build
MAP
, ARRAY
, and STRUCT
types, and
complex types that are nested combinations of these and primitive types. ArcViz displays complex types in an intuitive nested
structure for use in Dataset customization and as direct 'drag and drop' objects when
building visuals. The queries run in native SQL.
See Complex Data Types.
Workspaces create a new functional organizational and security level for working with dashboards. All dashboards reside now in workspaces. By default, Arcadia Enterprise places new dashboards into the creator's private workspace. Users with adequate role privileges can manage granular permissions to workspaces for other users and groups, and publish dashboards to workspaces, or move and clone them. See our discussion of this powerful feature in Working with Workspaces.
Starting with this release, you can configure non-accelerated queries to re-route to an alternate engine, such as Hive, Imapla, and SparkSQL. This lowers ArcEngine processing and resource utilization on cluster significantly.
Arcadia Enterprise helps you debug your dashboard performance by providing detailed statistics on the rendering and querying operations of the visuals. See Monitoring Dashboard Performance Profile.
In this release, we certify the smooth operation of Arcadia Enterprise with Internet Explorer 11 and Edge. See Internet Browsers.
Starting with this release, Arcadia Enterprise contains a license key that describes the number of nodes licensed, the expiration date, and similar information. ArcViz UI issues a notification if the license file is not valid, or if the system is running on an excess number of nodes. For details on reviewing or renewing your license, see Licensing Arcadia Enterprise.
This Arcadia Enterprise Release 2.9.1 features the following improvement areas:
We now maintain two new additional catalog log tables, to enable real-time and
historic reporting on product usage statistics. They are, respectively,
arcadia_catalog.inflight_queries
and
arcadia_catalog.completed_queries
. See ArcEngine Catalog Tables.
In this release, we enabled auditing support for Ranger. See Auditing with Ranger.
We are releasing many features that contribute to overall performance, new functions and syntax, enhancements to security, and many more performance-related features.
This release expands support for Arcadia Enterprise to CDH 5.13, HDP 2.6, and MapR 5.2.1.
To see our entire certification matrix, please review Certifications.