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CrateDB v5.9 Release: NUMERIC, TOPK() and improved Azure support

Written by Henrik Ingo | 2024-10-31

Our Fall release of CrateDB is out, with a mix of new data types, query functionality, and improvements for administrators. And, of course, a performance improvement as well as additional information in EXPLAIN ANALYZE.

Features & Functionality

New fixed precision NUMERIC / DECIMAL data type

Commonly used in the financial industry, also certain engineering industries care about precise measurements and don’t want to deal with the tiny yet unavoidable rounding errors of floating point arithmetics.