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Release Note (0.4.0)

Release time: 2021-11-25 00:00:00

This release of Aquila DB involves size optimizations and a major change in the default similarity metric being used.

New features: 0 Total features: 5

[Announcement] Default similarity metric changed

Aquila DB will now use dot product similarity metric as the default one configured. To change this metric, a user need to manually make appropriate changes in the DB_config.yml for Aquila DB lite (annoy) version and changes in source code for the full version.

[Added] What’s new in Aquila DB

No new feature additions.

[Fixed] Bugs fixed

Several minor bugs are fixed. To see all fixes, please refer to this release's commits.

[Deprecation Notice] What’s going to change

No planned deprecation

[Removed] What’s changed

No features removed

[Known Issues] We’re aware of these issues

No known issues

Improvements

• Single script installation improved with custom parameters
• Dockerfile added

Bug fixes

• Delete documents had a bug which deletes JSON document but the vector in the index

Deprecation / removals

• Direct Couch DB connection from AquilaDB is removed and is moved to Aquila Port
• DB configuration file template is changed (please refer source code for new template)

Features

• Schema definition for DB creation is introduced
• Database name is universal and auto generated from CID of schema
• Schema based document validation added
• Delete document API introduced
• Cryptographic authentication is added

Improvements

• Single script installation
• Better failure recovery and backup

Bug fixes

• https://github.com/Aquila-Network/AquilaDB/issues/61
• https://github.com/Aquila-Network/AquilaDB/issues/60
• https://github.com/Aquila-Network/AquilaDB/issues/58
• https://github.com/Aquila-Network/AquilaDB/issues/46
• https://github.com/Aquila-Network/AquilaDB/issues/25
• https://github.com/Aquila-Network/AquilaDB/issues/22

Miscellaneous internal changes

• Code base is refactored from the ground up to support new specifications

https://github.com/a-mma/AquilaDB/pull/38