Changes in HeatWave 8.1.0-u3 (2023-09-12, General Availability)

• HeatWave Lakehouse

• HeatWave AutoML

• Functionality Added or Changed

HeatWave Lakehouse

• Lakehouse can now use a regular expression to define a set of files. (WL #15840)

• Lakehouse now uses Auto Parallel Load to load Parquet files. (WL #15656)

• Lakehouse now supports the Avro file format, see HeatWave Lakehouse. (WL #15494)

HeatWave AutoML

• HeatWave AutoML now supports text data types, see: Supported Data Types. (WL #15743)

Functionality Added or Changed

• Adaptive Query Execution dynamically adjusts the query execution plan based on runtime statistics to improve query execution time. See: Query Execution. (WL #15368)