Features
The following table summarizes the VeloDB Cloud capabilities documented for each 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.
| Feature | VeloDB Cloud v26.1 | 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 | ❌ | Continuously ingest inserts, updates, and deletes from operational databases. |
| Kafka and Confluent imports | 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 | Scale frontend resources independently from compute clusters. |