This topic describes the features released for Dataphin (fully managed) in 2024.
December 2024
Product version: V4.4
Beijing: Released on December 3, 2024.
Hangzhou and Shenzhen: Released on December 5, 2024.
Shanghai: Released on December 8, 2024.
Feature name | Feature description | Related documentation |
Data source management |
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Announcement settings | Add system announcements. You can publish important notices to the current tenant as text (with optional links) or images for a specified time period. | |
Offline integration |
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Offline development |
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Real-time development |
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Data standards |
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Resource governance |
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Metadata Center | Add big data storage sources: StarRocks, Hive (MySQL metadata database), and Hologres. These sources collect table, field, and partition information. You can find these tables in the asset inventory and Metadata Center, and publish them to the asset catalog. | |
Publish assets—metric assets |
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Publish assets |
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Data Service Studio |
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Tag Factory |
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Cross-tenant publishing | Add cross-node parameter cross-tenant publishing. |
October 2024
Product version: V4.3
Beijing: Released on October 9, 2024.
Hangzhou and Shenzhen: Released on October 10, 2024.
Shanghai: Released on October 13, 2024.
Feature name | Feature description | Related documentation |
Permission management | Added support for applying for and granting permissions on tables in MySQL and Oracle data sources. | |
Data source management |
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Projects | When you delete a project, a list of existing objects is displayed to help you identify any blockers. | |
Offline integration |
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Offline development |
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Real-time development |
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Metadata Center | Four new metadata acquisition sources are added: AnalyticDB for MySQL, PolarDB-X, IBM DB2, and SAP HANA. | |
Asset inventory |
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Data standards |
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Data Quality | You can now export custom SQL rules. | |
Data security | A built-in template library for data security is added. The library includes templates for industries such as energy and power, Internet of vehicles, and intelligent connected vehicles. | |
Asset catalog | A metric object list is added. You can view metrics by subject or catalog. | |
Catalog management |
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Data Service Studio |
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Tag platform |
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Cross-tenant publishing | When you import deployment packages, you can use DDL replacement rules for offline physical tables. For example, you can replace the host or storage class in external table location URLs. |
August 2024
Product version: V4.2.4
Beijing: Released on August 27, 2024.
Hangzhou and Shenzhen: Released on August 29, 2024.
Shanghai: Released on September 1, 2024.
Feature name | Feature description | Related documentation |
Sales |
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Data integration | API input and output components support HTTP request retries. | |
Offline development | Add default scheduling time for recurring tasks in R&D platform settings. Choose random time within a range (to distribute server load and improve stability) or fixed time. | |
Data Quality | Export and download issue lists as Excel files for easy business reporting and archiving. |
July 2024
Product version: V4.2
Beijing: Released on July 25, 2024.
Hangzhou and Shenzhen: Released on July 30, 2024.
Shanghai: Released on August 4, 2024.
Feature name | Feature description | Related documentation |
Member management | Permissions are added for the Metadata Center and asset catalog features. | |
Data source management | For custom data sources, you can now re-upload JAR packages and edit JSON configurations. | |
Resource scheduling | For compute and integration tasks in development projects, you can now configure scheduling resource groups for execution and preview in the development environment. | |
Offline development |
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Basic O&M | The project-level monitoring and alerting feature is optimized. You can configure separate incomplete alerts for daily, weekly, and monthly tasks, and for hourly and minute-based tasks. | |
Offline integration |
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Metadata Center | The Metadata Center module is added. This module lets you manage tasks, instances, and business systems, and view the metadata inventory. You can extract, process, store, and manage metadata from business systems to support data governance and improve internal data organization, retrieval, and analysis. | |
Asset inventory |
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Data security |
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Asset catalog | The new asset catalog feature provides an entry point for listed assets. You can use it to search for data and view asset details. | |
Catalog management | The original asset subject management feature now supports multiple subjects and multi-level directories for each subject. You can manually publish assets to different catalogs and configure display names and view permissions to improve data discovery and reduce the costs of understanding asset operations. | |
Tag platform |
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Personal Data Center |
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Cross-tenant publishing | Cross-tenant publishing is added for behavioral relationships, behavioral preference tags, and behavioral statistic tags. | |
Maintenance/upgrade | During cross-tenant publishing, you can perform operations that do not affect production data. You can access the O&M, Publish, Analyze, Asset Inventory, and Permission Management modules. You can also submit integration tasks and development objects in development projects. Publishing is not allowed. | |
Filename conventions | The filename convention feature is added. You can validate file prefixes and suffixes for files that are uploaded to Dataphin. Files must meet both the prefix and suffix requirements to be uploaded. |
June 2024
Product version: V4.1
Beijing: Released on June 13, 2024.
Hangzhou and Shenzhen: Released on June 20, 2024.
Shanghai: Released on June 23, 2024.
Feature name | Feature description | Related documentation |
Global |
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Data source management |
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Offline integration |
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Offline development |
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Modeling development | Cascading updates to subject areas are now supported for downstream logical tables, atomic metrics, business filters, and derived metrics. | |
Basic O&M |
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Data standards |
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Data Quality |
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Data Service Studio |
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Tag Factory |
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Cross-tenant publishing |
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May 2024
Product version: V4.0
Shenzhen: Released on May 16, 2024.
Beijing and Hangzhou: Released on May 21, 2024.
Shanghai: Released on May 26, 2024.
Feature name | Feature description | Related documentation |
Tag Sale | You can purchase more tags. Different Tag Factory editions support different maximum tag counts:
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Custom resource groups | Custom resource groups are added. You can divide your tenant's scheduling resources into isolated groups based on a specified ratio. You can then assign different scheduling resources to tasks and specify dedicated resource groups for temporary O&M scenarios, such as backfilling. | |
Global role management |
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Python third-party packages | You can install Python modules online using Python mirrors. | |
Data sources |
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Offline integration |
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Offline development |
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Modeling development |
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Real-time development |
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Basic O&M |
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Asset catalog |
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Data standards |
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Data Quality |
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Tag Factory |
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Cross-tenant publishing |
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April 2024
Product version: V3.14
Beijing: Released on April 16, 2024.
Shenzhen and Hangzhou: Released on April 18, 2024.
Shanghai: Released on April 21, 2024.
Feature name | Feature description | Related documentation |
Table permissions |
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Data source permissions | Users who have execution permissions on a data source can create, run, and analyze database SQL tasks that are based on that data source. | |
Style configuration | Page watermark settings are added. You can customize the watermark content and style, including the font size, bold, rotation angle, font color, and spacing. | |
Task Hub | You can now approve tasks in batches. | |
Python third-party packages | Global management for Python third-party packages is added. You can install a package once and reference it multiple times to improve the development efficiency of Python tasks. | |
Data sources |
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Offline integration |
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Offline development |
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Modeling development |
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Real-time development |
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Basic O&M |
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Asset catalog | Asset subject directories can be sorted by name. The asset catalog supports filtering physical tables and fields by data domain and subject area. | |
Data standards |
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Data Quality |
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Data security |
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Tag Factory |
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Analysis platform | Notebooks and SQL queries can now access data in MySQL and Oracle databases. You can also run SQL scripts. | |
Data Service Studio |
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Cross-tenant publishing |
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February 2024
Product version: V3.13
Beijing and Shenzhen: Released on February 27, 2024.
Hangzhou: Released on February 29, 2024.
Shanghai: Released on March 3, 2024.
Feature name | Feature description | Related documentation |
Q&A | Add ticket-based support. Quickly access the support bot or submit a ticket from the bottom right of the page to get your questions answered. | |
Compute settings | If no compute source is created, you can modify the MaxCompute region and network connection type in the compute settings. | Set MaxCompute as the compute engine for a Dataphin instance |
R&D platform settings |
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Project role management | In custom project roles, a role with Member Management—Edit permission cannot configure a user as a project administrator (including themselves). | |
Member management | Optimize one-click owner transfer. Support transferring data table owners, task O&M owners, and monitoring owners. | |
Data source management |
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Offline integration |
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Compute tasks |
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Offline compute templates |
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Ad hoc query | Optimize ad hoc and analysis query results. Bigint and Decimal types now show full precision. Bigint supports the range -2^63+1 to 2^63-1. | |
Resources | Support using | |
Offline and modeling development |
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Real-time development |
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Publish Center |
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Basic O&M |
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Data standards |
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Data Quality |
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Data security |
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Tag Factory |
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Analysis platform—manual tables |
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Data Service Studio |
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Cross-tenant publishing |
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