GeoMesa 1.2.3 Release Notes

GeoMesa 1.2.3 includes 40+ improvements and bug fixes that have been addressed.

Important Notes

GeoMesa Accumulo Runtime Jar Required for Ingest

The GeoMesa distributed runtime jar now must be installed on the cluser and configured for VFS classloading prior to ingest
Supports pre-computed bounds and statistics

Pre-computed statistics & Query Planning

GeoMesa now stores statistics about the spatiotemporal bounds and distribution of data at ingest time.
Statistics can be used for more accurate index selection during query planning.
Pre-computed statistics are available via a REST API that can be configured using the GeoMesa-Ext CatalogListener.

Keywords Stored in GeoMesa

Keywords can be added to the datastores metadata either at SFT creation in Scala or typesafe config or added via command-line tools.
Useful for configuring stealth keywords

Multi-Level Attribute Visibility

Data SFT/Converters In Tools

Common SFT/Converter TypeSafe config definitions now ship with tools (e.g. twitter, geolife, geonames, etc.)
Scripts for downloading data are included in tools

Native API View

Kafka Datastore Fixes - Fixed isssue for CQL queries with multiple spatial filters
Spark/Scala 2.10 Support - Updates to GeoMesaSpark and continuing work to support Spark/Scala 2.10
Updated Documentation - All supported data stores have their own chapters in the User Manual, with installation and GeoServer configuration information. Additional libraries are described in a modules and libraries chapter in the User Manual.
Elastic MapReduce (EMR) Scripts - EMR scripts are now included in the tools

GeoMesa 1.2.3 supports upgrade in place from versions 1.1.0.rc.7 through 1.2.2
Shutdown the geoserver and upgrade the distributed runtime in accumulo as well as the geomesa jars in the webserver