Welcome to the thirteenth edition of the Kudu Weekly Update. This weekly blog post covers ongoing development and news in the Apache Kudu (incubating) project.
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Development discussions and code in progress
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The IPMC vote for 0.9.0 RC1 passed and Kudu 0.9.0 is now officially released. Per the lazily agreed-upon plan, the next release will be 1.0.0 in about two months.
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Adar Dembo has been cleaning up and improving the Master process’s code. Last week he finished removing the per-tablet replica locations cache.
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Alexey Serbin contributed his first patch last week by fixing most of the unit tests that were failing on OSX.
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Sameer Abhyankar is nearly finished adding support for “in-list” predicates, follow this link to the gerrit review. This will enable specifying predicates in the style of “column IN (list, of, values)”.
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Mike Percy posted a few patches that remove LocalConsensus for single-node tablets, with the actual removal happening in this patch.
Slides and recordings
- Todd Lipcon presented Kudu at Berlin Buzzwords earlier this month. The recording is available here.