---
title: Announcing Databend v0.7.0 - Deploy easier, query faster
description: This is my first post on Docusaurus 2.
slug: category-product/databend-0-7-0-release
date: 2022-03-28
tags: [databend, v0.7.0]
category: Product
cover_url: databend-vseven.png
authors:
  - BohuTANG
---

**Continuing breaking ground, activate your object storage for big data analytics in sub-second!**

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Thank you to everyone for the work over the past 4 months!

With our latest release, Databend v0.7.0, this release includes several new user-facing features, performance optimizations, and many other improvements, activate your object storage for big data analytics!

## Highlights

0.7.0 release brings Databend architecture to a stable stage

- Simple primitive data type framework
- New Pull&Push-Based Processor framework
- Git-Like table format with snapshot transaction isolation
- Announce [OpenDAL](https://github.com/databendlabs/opendal) for object storage data access
- Announce [OpenRaft](https://github.com/databendlabs/openraft) to improve raft as the next generation consensus protocol

## New Features

- [Query] Add DateTime64 data type
- [Query] Add Semi-Structured variant data type
- [Query] Add `group by` nullable column
- [Query] Add filter push-down for `read datasource`
- [Query] Add function monotonicity check
- [Query] Add support for Java/Python/Golang client and JDBC driver
- [Query] Add support for github external datasource
- [Query] Add support for `CREATE TABLE [IF NOT EXISTS] [db.]table LIKE [db.]origin_table AS SELECT query`
- [Query] Add support for `Copy INTO <table> from external location`
- [Query] Add support for `COPY INTO <table> FROM internal/external stage`
- [Query] Add support for `ALTER TABLE [ IF EXISTS ] <name> RENAME TO <new_table_name>`
- [Query] Add support for `[NOT] IN (a, b, c, ...) InList`
- [Query] Add user defined functions
- [Query] Add `system.query_log` for multi-tenant query statistics
- [Query] Add `CALL` procedure for administrator operation
- [Query] Add support for CSV/Parquet/Json file streaming load
- [Query] Add embed markdown dos into `system.functions`
- [Query] Add support for config file format json, yaml, toml
- [Query] Add support for column specify an expression as default value
- [User] Add support for basic RBAC privileges
- [Storage] Add database_id/table_id to data file prefix
- [Storage] Add version to storage layout for upgrade
- [Meta] Add support for multi tenant
- [Meta] Replace arrow flight service with gRPC

## Improvements

- [Query] Change Pull-Based to New Pull&Push-Based processor
- [Query] Improve parallel write performance
- [Doc] Better documentation https://docs.databend.com/

## Reference

- [How to Deploy Databend](https://docs.databend.com/guides/deploy/deploy/)
- [How to Load Data to Databend](https://docs.databend.com/guides/load-data/)
- [Benchmark Reports](https://www.databend.com/blog/clickbench-databend-top)
- [Databend v0.7.0 Release Notes](https://github.com/databendlabs/databend/releases/tag/v0.7.0-nightly)