Week in Review — December 3, 2019

New Components

AppsFlyer Extractor

  • We’re happy to welcome the AppsFlyer Extractor to the family!

  • AppsFlyer is the market leader in mobile advertising attribution and analytics, helping marketers to pinpoint their targeting, optimize their ad spend, and boost ROI.

  • This component was developed by KDS Team.

DynamoDB Writer

  • Another great addition to our component collection is DynamoDB Writer!

  • This component lets you write data from our Storage into AWS' DynamoDB, which is a key-value, document-based database. It's fully managed, multiregion, multimaster, durable with built-in security, backup and restore, and in-memory caching for internet-scale applications.

  • This component was developed by KDS Team.

CSV to XLSX Processor

  • Highly demanded utility to convert data in CSV format to XLSX is here!

  • This component was also developed by KDS Team.


Updated Components

AWS S3 Extractor

  • Uses parallel download and it's more than 20 times faster!

Snowflake Extractor

  • Supports incremental load.

  • Supports config rows.

Oracle Extractor

  • Supports incremental load.

  • Supports configuration rows.

  • Implemented retry mechanism for all types of queries

Redshift Extractor

  • Supports incremental load.

MySQL Extractor

  • Implemented retry mechanism for all types of queries

PostgreSQL Extractor

  • Added support for PostgreSQL Server v12


Improvements

Transformations

  • Transformations are collapsed by default.

Data Catalog

  • Improved "empty" page

  • Type of sharing is now shown and will be improved further. 

  • Improved “initial" modal

  • Bucket description is shown where applicable. 

Storage

  • When creating an alias table, you can now filter data by the EMPTY_STRING or SPACE characters.


Fixes

  • Fixed a bug in the Darksky extractor date conversion. The bug caused dates in the date column for places in UTC+ timezones to be one day less than the actual forecast date.


Developers