Changes in HeatWave 8.1.0-u4 (2023-09-26, General Availability)

• HeatWave Lakehouse

• HeatWave AutoML

• Functionality Added or Changed

HeatWave Lakehouse

• HeatWave Lakehouse now uses schema inference to create an external table, see Loading Data from External Storage Using Auto Parallel Load. (WL #15851)

• HeatWave Lakehouse now includes support for HeatWave AutoML. See: HeatWave AutoML and Lakehouse. (WL #15539)

HeatWave AutoML

• The HeatWave AutoML recommendation task now supports implicit feedback. See Recommendations. (WL #15802)

Functionality Added or Changed

• MySQL InnoDB on MySQL HeatWave now has support for a bulk load extension to the LOAD DATA statement. This is only available on MySQL HeatWave on AWS. See: MySQL Extensions for HeatWave and Bulk Ingest Data to MySQL Server. (WL #14717, WL #14772, WL #15131, WL #15132, WL #15133, WL #15612)