December 21, 2020

This release of the Cloudera Data Warehouse (CDW) service on CDP Public Cloud introduces the new features and improvements that are described in this topic.

Use Data Visualization with Virtual Warehouses

You can now use CDP Data Visualization, a tool that enables you to explore data by using visual objects, with CDW Virtual Warehouses.

Start and stop Impala Virtual Warehouses

In this release, you can now explicitly start and stop Impala Virtual Warehouses by clicking the start or stop icon in the upper right corner of the Virtual Warehouse tile. In the Virtual Warehouse details page, you can use this feature by clicking the Suspend or Start options in the Actions menu. Use this feature to better control costs and resource usage in your cloud environment.

Azure environments: Use DAS and Hue to create new custom functions

HiveServer2 localizes and packages the User-Defined Functions (UDF) jar files into Azure Blob storage. You can use DAS and Hue to create new custom functions using the external jar file. To create user-defined functions, see Using functions in the Hive documentation.