New
Feature
PostgreSQL as a primary database
Ilum can now run its entire metadata store on PostgreSQL as a first-class alternative to MongoDB. Choose your database when you deploy. Ilum sets up the schema, keeps it up to date and (if you're coming from MongoDB) moves all of your data across for you. Both backends behave identically, with no feature trade-off in the choice. Existing MongoDB deployments keep running as before. MongoDB stays the default.
- Your database, your choice: run Ilum on PostgreSQL or MongoDB. Standardize on whatever database your team already operates.
- Zero manual schema work: on a PostgreSQL deployment the schema is created and kept up to date automatically at startup. There's nothing to apply by hand.
- Guided migration from MongoDB: moving an existing install over is a single guided step that copies everything (clusters, services, schedules, jobs, SQL queries and notebooks, presets, users, groups and their ownership and audit history) into PostgreSQL. It's safe to re-run. Once it's done, MongoDB can be switched off.
- Nothing left behind: application data and configuration all carry over intact. The migrated platform looks and behaves exactly like the original.
Many platform teams already standardize on PostgreSQL for backups, high availability and the tooling around it. Ilum now fits that stack natively. The built-in migration turns moving off MongoDB into a guided upgrade rather than a data-export project.
Links: Migration guide
Available in version: 6.7.2
Links: Migration guide
Available in version: 6.7.2