MIMB 11.1 Features & Roadmap

Important License Limitation Disclaimer

Note that some of the features detailed in these release changes may not apply and/or be available for the particular edition/version you are using.

Summer 2027 | End Of Life (EOL) 06/30/2027

No longer Supported

Fall 2026 | Deprecated 09/30/2026

Successor major release available: see Version 12.0 Roadmap.

Winter 25 | New Developments

Database Semantic Views for AI and BI

• Snowflake Semantic Views

• Databricks Unity Catalog Metric Views

• Oracle Analytics Views

Fall 25 | Released Update 09-15-2025

Business Intelligence (BI):

• Sigma import new bridge

Data Integration (DI/ETL/ELT/Scripts):

• Fivetran import new bridge

• Matillion import new bridge

• OpenLineage import new bridge with support for:

  • Apache Air Flow import new bridge

Summer 25 | Released Update 07/21/2025

• Microsoft Sharepoint / Onedrive Object / File System import new bridge

• Microsoft PowerQuery based Excel data flow lineage support in objects store / file system import bridges from:

  • Linux and Windows File Systems (Delimited, Fixed Width, Excel, XML, JSON, Avro, Parquet, ORC, COBOL Copybook) import bridge

  • Microsoft Sharepoint / Onedrive Object / File System import bridge

  • Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2 File System import bridge

  • Microsoft Azure Blob Storage File System import bridge

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3) File System import bridge

  • Google Cloud Storage (GCS) File System import bridge

Spring 24 | General Availability 03-27-2024

Data / Relational Databases (RDBMS, Big Data / Hadoop Hive, etc.)

• Hadoop Hive JDBC import bridges major improvement for fast incremental harvesting (up to 10x faster) based of the Metastore Listener technology.

• Apache Hadoop Hive Database import bridge: new support for metastore listener

• Cloudera Data Platform Hadoop Hive Database import bridge: new support for metastore listener

• Cloudera Hortonworks Data Platform Hadoop Hive Database import bridge: new support for metastore listener

• Databricks Delta Lake Hadoop Hive Database import bridge: new support for metastore listener

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Hadoop Hive Database import bridge: new support for metastore listener

• HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric (MapR Data Platform) Hadoop Hive Database import bridge: new support for metastore listener

Data / NoSQL DATABASES (JSON, etc.)

• Couchbase NoSQL Database import bridge: new beta bridge

• GraphQL new bridges:

• GraphQL File import bridge: new beta bridge

• GraphQL Server import bridge: new beta bridge

Data / File Systems (Object Stores, Data Lake, etc.)

• OpenStack Swift Object Store File System import bridge: new beta bridge

Data Integration (DI/ETL/ELT/Scripts)

• Databricks platform extended support through enhanced and new bridges:

• Databricks Notebooks / Spark import bridge: new bridge

• Databricks Unity Catalog import bridge: new bridge

• Databricks Unified Data Services / Spark import bridge: major new enhancements

• dbt new bridges:

• dbt Cloud import bridge: new bridge

• dbt Core import bridge: new bridge

• Informatica Cloud Data Integration (CDI) import bridge: new bridge

• Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSRS) Server (on prem) import bridge: support for version 15.x (2019 and newer)

• Tableau Prep Builder import bridge: new bridge

• Talend Data Integration import bridge: major improvements including support for numerous new data connectors and transformations, as well as new support for dynamic jobs loading metadata (schema, table, DDL, SQL) from external tables/files.

• Snowflake platform extended support through enhanced and new bridges:

• Snowflake Access History (DI/ETL) import bridge: new beta bridge

Business Intelligence (BI/OLAP)

• IBM Cognos Analytics Content Manager import bridge: support for latest version 12.x

• Microsoft Analytics tools major improvements:

• Microsoft Power BI (PBIX or PBIT) File (PowerQuery M language based) import bridge, Microsoft Power BI Report Server (Repository) import bridge, and Microsoft Azure Power BI Service (Repository) import bridge: major improvements pending Microsoft's progress in the metadata access (API and file formats) to its Power BI technologies.

• Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) XMLA file import bridge: major improvements to support new Microsoft API

• Microsoft Azure Analysis Services (based on SSAS) import bridge: support for version 15.x (2019 and newer)

• Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) Server (on prem) import bridge: support for version 15.x (2019 and newer)

• Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) Server (on prem) import bridge: support for version 15.x (2019 and newer)

• Oracle Business Intelligence (OBI) Publisher new bridges:

• Oracle Business Intelligence (OBI) Publisher Data Model (XDMZ file) import bridge: new beta bridge

• Oracle Business Intelligence (OBI) Publisher Report (XDOZ file) import bridge: new beta bridge

MIMB Custom Export Bridge SDK

allowing OEM partners to export the harvested metadata to their own metadata repository:

• Meta Integration Repository (MIR) Profiled (Tool specific metamodel) - Vendor Internal Bridge export bridge: new bridge

MIMB Third-Party Software Updates

• All third-party & open source software has been upgraded to their latest versions for bug fixes, improvements, and better security vulnerability protection. For more details, see the published MIMB's Third-Party & Open Source Software Usage and LICENSES.