March 2024 Summaries

Today, Cube announces its integration with SingleStore, a powerful database platform. This partnership aims to provide businesses with more options for their data warehouse platforms. The joint customers can leverage the benefits of both Cube and SingleStore, such as unifying analytical and transactional workloads, horizontal scaling capability, and access to real-time insights. Cube Cloud users can now connect to SingleStore, define their data models and security models in a code-first experience, and deliver that data via REST, GraphQL, and SQL APIs. Documentation for integrating SingleStore with Cube Cloud is available, and support is provided through the contact us form or account executive.

Cube Core has released v0.34.35 through v0.35, introducing enhancements to data modeling and support for various data sources. The updates include changes in default settings, the introduction of new context variables, and the removal of legacy features. Additionally, improvements have been made to the SQL API and BI tool support. Users are encouraged to upgrade and try the latest version available on Docker distribution or Cube Cloud.

Over the last few months, Cube Cloud has introduced several significant updates aimed at improving user experience and functionality. These include demo deployments for exploring how Cube Cloud functions using pre-configured datasets, Playground 2.0 for enhanced data modeling experience, deployment warm-up to improve querying performance, pre-aggregation index suggestion for better query optimization, Performance Insights for monitoring deployment performance, multi-cluster deployments for handling high-demand workloads, and support for Power BI and Microsoft Fabric. These updates are available across different tiers of Cube Cloud users, from free to enterprise level. The team is currently working on more updates and encourages user feedback.

The text discusses the integration of Cube Cloud with Microsoft's ecosystem of data and analytics tools, including Azure for hosting, Entra ID for identity management, Fabric for data warehousing, and Power BI for data consumption. It highlights that regardless of how deeply one is invested in the Microsoft ecosystem, Cube Cloud can centralize the management and performance of data analytics. The most impactful integrations are with Fabric and Power BI, enabling seamless work with data within the Microsoft ecosystem. Cube provides support for tools both upstream and downstream of its semantic layer, offering unified metrics definitions and access control. Semantic Layer Sync enables instant importing of PBIT files from Cube Cloud to Power BI without any additional configuration. This feature is available in Cube Cloud on the Enterprise tier, with documentation and a Slack community for further discussion.

Cube has been working to deepen its support for Microsoft's ecosystem of data and analytics tools, aiming to empower developers with the ability to choose their preferred tools on any platform. The company has made improvements to its SQL-API to better support Microsoft Power BI, expanding coverage of possible types of queries that can be issued to the API. Cube Cloud now supports Microsoft Fabric as a data source and Microsoft Entra ID for identity and access management. Additionally, Cube Cloud offers virtual network connectivity capabilities on Microsoft Azure, including VNet Peering and Azure PrivateLink. Lastly, Cube Cloud is now available for purchase on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.