InterSystems IRIS version 2019.1 released

The 2019.1 version of InterSystems IRIS Data Platform is now Generally Available!

Kits and container images are available via the WRC download site

The build number for these releases is 2019.1.0.510.0.

InterSystems IRIS Data Platform 2019.1 provides the following new capabilities:

• Performance and scalability. The release features new performance improvements for parallel queries and data ingestion resulting in more than 50 percent performance improvement, and expanded sharding support with simpler rebalancing across nodes.
• Expanded cloud support. InterSystems IRIS is now available in the marketplaces of all three major public cloud platforms, with standard licensing as well as a new free Community Edition for development and an Express Edition for small production applications. The release also supports asynchronous mirroring and availability zones to enable disaster recovery in the cloud.
• Integration. The latest release further expands the product’s schema, transformation, routing, and testing capabilities, supporting integration and service aggregation as a key enabler of digital transformation initiatives.
• Enhanced language support. 2019.1 adds to the existing comprehensive development capabilities with functional and performance enhancements to the Java, Python, and C# development languages.

These are detailed in the documentation for InterSystems IRIS.   You can also watch a short video introducing the InterSystems IRIS 2019.1 release.

Server platform support for traditional installations has been updated, as have the base OS layer and storage drivers for IRIS containers.  This release also adds support for Ubuntu 18.04 and Windows Server 2019 operating systems.  You can see read details in the Supported Platforms document.

With 2019.1, InterSystems IRIS now officially supports self-service BI tools using ODBC connections, specifically Tableau and PowerBI.