The 12.0 release introduces several enhancements, including performance optimization, workload automation, database management improvements, and cloud-enabled capabilities that drive business continuity. The 12.0 release has new capabilities designed to support mission-critical business and modernization efforts, such as:

• Workload Manager 2.0 provides better queue management and allocation of resources by user, role, and group.


• Containerized UDFs (Linux, Windows) offer improved isolation and support for using Python, and Javascript languages in working with data.


• Up to 20% faster analytical queries (Linux, Windows) using the X100 engine.


• Backup to Cloud and Disaster Recovery (Linux, Windows) for on-premises and cloud deployments using Virtual Machines(VMs) or Docker containers in Kubernetes.


• Improvements that harden security against brute force and Denial of Service (DoS) attacks from malicious actors