============= Release 0.251

Highlights

• Introduced BigQuery Connector.

Details

General Changes

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• Improve ORC writer performance for string columns.
• Add support for improving cache affinity hit rate by preventing repartitioning when nodes go down for a limited time. This can be enabled by setting the internal-communication.memoize-dead-nodes-enabled configuration property to true.
• Add support to enforce NOT NULL constraints by checking values for NOT NULL columns.

JDBC Connector Changes

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• Add support to accept username and password.

BigQuery Connector Changes

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• Introduced BigQuery Connector. See :doc:/connector/bigquery to get started.

Hive Changes

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• Add support for cache quota when using Alluxio cache.
• Add configuration property cache.alluxio.eviction-policy to set eviction policy for Alluxio caching.

Verifier Changes

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• Increase verifier retry and determinism analysis limits.

Contributors

Ajay George, Andrii Rosa, Arjun Gupta, Arunachalam Thirupathi, Bhavani Hari, Bin Fan, Chi Tsai, George Wang, James Petty, James Sun, Jinlin Zhang, Nikhil Collooru, Rebecca Schlussel, Shixuan Fan, Stephen Dimmick, Timothy Meehan, Venki Korukanti, Vic Zhang, Yang Yang, Zhenxiao Luo