Qarbine Release History

Overview

Qarbine’s Modern Data Collaboration Suite ™ has many features to enhance modern data applications being delivered by forward leaning tech teams. Productivity Additions to Qarbine (PAQs) are released along with Qarbine editions to provide extended functionality for various Qarbine tools and components.

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Professional Release 1.6

Chart components are now fully supported! Their data can come from Qarbine data source accessing any supported Qarbine database. Charts can be embedded into applications using standard Qarbine embedding template techniques allowing them to present both summary and drill down detail analytics. Your dashboards maintain your look and feel rather than a third party’s.

 

Additional vector databases supported are:

  • LanceDB and

  • Kinetica.

Additional graph databases supported are:

  • FalkorDB.

Newly added support for traditional SQL databases:

  • IBM DB2,

  • IBM Watsonx.data Presto,

  • StarTree,

  • Microsoft SQL,

  • Microsoft Azure SQL, and

  • Oracle.

Generative AI Integrations added are:

  • IBM Watsonx AI.

Data handling Enhancements:

  • Additional pragmas for handling JSON data and virtual boolean values.

  • Optimized driver interfaces to minimize answer set size.

  • Additional macro functions for handling JSON objects and other data.

Tool Enhancements:

  • Chart components are now fully supported.

  • Geospatial map prompting element for more intuitive interaction.

  • Template Designer enhancements for manipulating groups.

  • Smarter template generation from the query tools.

Custom Cell Updates:

  • Hyperlink vs. context menu click refinements.

  • Chart.js enhancements which also apply to the new Chart component feature.

Documentation

  • Additional online tutorials for the added database integrations.
  • Additional catalog examples across the previous and newly added database integrations.

Professional Release 1.5

Additional vector databases supported are:

  • DataStax,

  • Qdrant, and

  • Weaviate.

Additional graph databases supported are:

  • TigerGraph.

Newly added support for traditional SQL databases:

  • mySQL,

  • SingleStore,

  • PostgresSQL, and

  • CockroachDB, 

Generative AI Integrations added are:

  • Mixedbread,

  • Portkey,

  • Predibase,

  • Together AI, and

  • Voyage AI.

Tool Enhancements

  • Modern look and feel upgrades across the toolsuite.

  • Additional shortcuts for catalog navigation.

  • Template Designer enhancements for faster authoring such as creating both labels and formulas from data source schema fields.

Custom Cell Additions:

  • Geographic map cell for spatial visualization.

  • Open Google map on a geographical location.

  • Country code to flag graphics.

  • Barcode generation.

  • QR code generation.

Documentation

    • Additional online tutorials for the added database integrations.

    • Additional catalog examples across the previous and newly added database integrations.

Professional Release 1.4

Graph databases are the theme with new support for:

  • Neo4j, 

  • Gremlin API, and

  • AWS Neptune.

Generative AI Integrations

  • Cohere,

  • Fireworks AI,

  • Gradient,

  • Jina AI,

  • Nomic, and

  • Perplexity.

Deployment Enhancements

  • Better support for self-signed certificates for faster development deployments.

  • Additional feedback during the deployment process.

DBA Oriented Enhancements

  • There are many new DBA oriented components providing information on various databases. See the “DBA Productivity” section at http://doc.qarbine.com.

Querying enhancements

  • Support for query comments using “/* …  */” syntax. This also enables compatibility with Couchbase Capella queries.

  • Additional pragmas for manipulating answer set shapes and reducing their size.

Tool Enhancements

  • Template Designer option to rapidly convert between cell types.

  • The catalog search option has speed enhancements.

Custom Cell Additions:

  • Links and Nodes cell for graph data visualization.

  • Single menu option morphing between regular and custom cells.

  • Multimedia cell for audio and video content.

  • General purpose HTML cell.

Documentation

  • Additional online tutorials for the added database integrations.

  • Additional catalog examples across the previous and newly added database integrations.

Professional Release 1.3

Added modern database integrations

  • MongoDB Atlas Administration API provides analysis of the Atlas configuration and also invoices using familiar MongoDB Query Language or SQL

  • Couchbase DB

Added native vector database integrations

  • Milvus

  • Pinecone

Artificial Intelligence (AI) integrations supporting vector embedding, vector searches, and chat completions. These highly configurable services also support the Qarbine “Ask AI” features providing query co-pilot, on-the-fly RAG, and interactive RAG functionality.

  • Anthropic, 

  • AWS Bedrock, 

  • Azure Open AI, 

  • Google Gemini, 

  • Hugging Face,

  • Mistral AI, and 

  • Open AI.

General enhancements

  • Many more database specific examples in the Qarbine catalog

  • Embedded SDK enhancements with more developer options

  • Over a hundred pages of additional documentation spanning various tutorials and integration guides

Collaboration enhancements

  • Support for storing general documents in the catalog. Text documents can be edited within Qarbine and managed just like other components. This enables team collaboration including sharing notes, queries, and generative AI prompts centrally. Their content can be used for AI prompts through Qarbine’s processing of variable references and embedded macro language functions.

Template and output enhancements

  • 6 more custom cells focused on HTML page generation, visualization and graphics including MongoDB Charts. Qarbine provides more than 20 ways to enhance analyses in visual and interactive manners.

  • Several custom cells may have pop up menus to further extend user interaction options

  • Enhancements to automatic creation of labels and formulas

  • More than 450 macro functions with additional ones including those for generative AI, embeddings, completions and timestamp handling along with minor edge case fixes

  • Refinements for exporting across various formats (HTML, JSON, CSV, TSV, text, and PDF)

Tool enhancements

  • Prompt Designer has additional widget options for added runtime prompting flexibility

  • Catalog subfolder and component search enhancements

  • Administration enhancements for managing configuration operations

  • Data Source Designer, QBE, and RBE now provide an option to review the effective query after all variables and other preprocessing. This helps debugging of queries.

 

Professional Release 1.2

Additional marketplaces

  • AWS Marketplace with Amazon Linux 2023 support

Added database integrations

  • MongoDB API DBs on AWS (MongoDB, AWS DocumentDB, SingleStore Kai, etc.)

  • AWS DynamoDB (ScyllaDB Alternator for this API flavor)

General enhancements

  • Column resizing for retrieved data answer sets

  • More query and result copying options for enhanced user interactions

  • Additional output formatting options for scalar and list values

  • More exporting options for Data Sets, answer sets, and results

  • Embedded SDK enhancements

Template and output enhancements

  • PDF output support

  • 10 more custom cells provide a total of 17 ways to enhance your analytic output in visual and interactive manners

  • Additional macro functions such as heatMapColor, toHex, documentToParagraph along with minor edge case fixes

Tool enhancements

  • Added Report Wizard for 10 total integrated tools

  • Prompt Designer includes color and file widgets for added runtime prompting flexibility

  • Catalog searching at subfolder level

  • Catalog find folder option for much easier searching in large catalog situations

  • Catalog folder statistics for better management and awareness

  • Catalog content searching is no case insensitive for JSON values

  • Additional Catalog component management options

Administration enhancements

  • Additional utility shell script such as pingSelf and enhancements to previous ones to be more informative

  • Enhancements to pulling catalog and configuration data from another Qarbine installation

Documentation enhancements

  • New documentation website to complement the Google Doc content.

  • Additional “How to” guides for building interactive templates.

 

Professional Release 1.1

Marketplaces

  • Azure

Database integrations 

  • MongoDB API (MongoDB, CosmosDB, SingleStore Kai, etc.)

Core features

  • Foundational release supporting native API querying and native document answer sets

  • 8 integrated tools for querying, defining analytic templates, dynamic user prompting, catalog management, administration and other tasks

  • Template Designer combines the formatting power of Microsoft Word, with Excel’s formula features, and PowerPoint’s layout interactions

  • 3 interactive query builders and 

  • a no-code Prompt Designer to gather analytic runtime values

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