Features
The following table summarizes capabilities that depend on the VeloDB Cloud Core version. In this table:
✅indicates a public feature.❌indicates that the feature is not supported in that version.- Public Preview features are available for evaluation.
- Private Preview features require you to contact the VeloDB Cloud support team to use them. Availability can also depend on the warehouse deployment model and region.
Features by core version
| Feature | VeloDB Cloud v26.1 | VeloDB Cloud v26.0 | VeloDB Cloud v4.1 | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MySQL-compatible connectivity | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Connect with MySQL-compatible clients, JDBC, ODBC, BI tools, and HTTP clients. |
| Storage and compute separation | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Store data in shared object storage and scale compute clusters independently. |
| Elastic compute clusters | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Add, remove, pause, and resume clusters to isolate workloads and adjust capacity. |
| Multi-AZ high availability | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Run warehouse services and clusters across availability zones within a region. |
| Import and export backups | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Create database-level backup plans and restore data from retained backup sets. |
| Snapshot backups | Private Preview | ❌ | ❌ | Create warehouse-level snapshots for recovery points and disaster recovery preparation. |
| CDC imports from MySQL and PostgreSQL | Public Preview | Public Preview | ❌ | Continuously ingest inserts, updates, and deletes from operational databases. |
| Kafka and Confluent imports | Public Preview | Public Preview | Public Preview | Ingest event-stream data through managed import jobs and Routine Load. |
| Lakehouse catalogs | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Query Iceberg, Hive, Paimon, Hudi, and other external data sources in place. |
| Materialized views | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Precompute results and transparently rewrite eligible queries for lower latency. |
| Full-text search | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Search text with inverted indexes and the SEARCH() function. |
| Vector search with HNSW | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Run approximate nearest neighbor searches with HNSW vector indexes. |
| IVF vector search and quantization | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | Use IVF indexes and quantization for memory-efficient large-scale vector search. |
| Variant and JSON | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Store and query semi-structured data with Variant columns and JSON functions. |
| Encryption at rest and in transit | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Protect warehouse data and connections with managed encryption controls. |
| Private connectivity | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Connect to warehouses and VeloDB Cloud services through private network paths. |
| Frontend Groups | Private Preview | Private Preview | Private Preview | Scale frontend resources independently from compute clusters. |
Platform features
The following features are provided by the VeloDB Cloud platform and are independent of the warehouse core version. Availability can depend on the deployment model, region, plan, and organization enablement.
| Feature | Availability status | Description |
|---|---|---|
| MCP Server for AI agents | ✅ | Let AI clients query live warehouse data through governed, read-only tools. |
| Management API and Terraform | ✅ | Provision and manage warehouses, clusters, networking, and connection metadata as code. |
| Monitoring and alerting | ✅ | View metrics, audit queries, configure alerts, and review resource usage. |
| Metrics API | Private Preview | Scrape warehouse and cluster metrics into Prometheus or Grafana. |
| SAML single sign-on | ✅ | Integrate organization sign-in with a SAML 2.0 identity provider. |