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New Features
New features were introduced in Sybase® IQ 15.4.
New Licensing Option
Sybase IQ 15.4 includes the new InDatabase Analytics license option.
New Product Edition
Sybase IQ 15.4 includes the new Express Edition product edition.
Enhanced Compression of VARCHAR, LONG VARCHAR, VARBINARY, and LONG VARBINARY Values
Fixed length data types CHAR and BINARY—and variable-length data types VARCHAR, VARBINARY, LONG VARCHAR, and LONG VARBINARY—are now more highly compressed, resulting in a smaller on-disk size.
Table UDFs and Table Parameterized Functions
Table UDFs are external user-defined C, C++, or Java table functions. Table UDFs, like scalar and aggregate UDFs, can accept scalar input parameters. Unlike scalar and aggregate UDFs, table UDFs produce row sets as output. Table UDFs and TPFs can be referenced wherever a table expression is allowed. For example, SELECT ... FROM <table-expr>. TPFs extend the capabilities of Table UDFs by allowing a row set to be consumed as an input parameter. The TABLE input parameter is not a scalar value, but rather a row set defined by an input query expression.
Java External Environment for UDFs
In this release, the query engine has been enhanced to allow execution of Java table functions. You can now build Java functions that can return a java.sql.ResultSet back to the IQ query engine. In previous releases, calls to Java table functions were processed by the row store query engine resulting in slower performance when joined with the IQ column store.
PlexQ Distribution Support for v3 Scalar and Aggregate UDFs
Enhancements were made to the v3 scalar and aggregate function API that allows these UDFs to optionally participate in distribution.
Spatial Data Support
Spatial data support is only supported by the row store query engine within Sybase IQ.
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