The Star's End Release - TerminusDB 4.0
Hello Terminators!
Happy (and relieved) to announce Version 4.0 of TerminusDB - the Star's End Release*. This is a big step forward in solidifying and extending the functionality of TerminusDB and TerminusHub.
With this release, TerminusDB takes a significant leap towards our vision of a general-purpose tool for data & content management and collaboration.
TerminusDB 4.0 extends the revision control features to allow greater visibility and reproducibility. Provenance, lineage, and compliance are increasingly essential in the management of data and content.
The major additional features are:
Model Building Tool. The database ships with an integrated visual schema building tool. You can visually design knowledge graphs in the same way they are presented to business users. We have tried to make the tool easy to use, while preserving the ability to model the most complex domains.
Document Editor. TerminusDB 4.0 has full surfability, clickability and editability of database documents through the console. This is the beginning of the TerminusDB content management system, which we will be expanding over the coming months.
CSV Manager. With a single click, you can now build a database from a CSV or a group of CSVs. You can then version control the CSVs in Terminus.
Command Line Interface. We are excited to launch the TerminusDB CLI. You can connect to TerminusDB with a Git-like CLI to run queries or use the revision control features.
Read more about the features and what comes next in our release notes.
TerminusDB Applications
Some great example applications are being developed with TerminusDB.
Dmytri has developed both back-end and front-end ToDo Applications using TerminusDB.
His front-end TodoMVC (feat. Svelte) is more developed and beautifully documented, but we shouldn’t forget the hardworking back-end Todo example. Blog over here on the process.
Here is a video of a recent episode of Terminators on Tech where Dmytri discusses the ToDo work with Cheuk.
Terminator Emmanual Oga built a CMS proof-of-concept using TerminusDB. It is called Neon Tetra, which is now our preferred fish from the characin family.
Stars on GitHub
We cracked 1k stars on GitHub:
Thanks for all the support! We are hoping to have a stars event at some point in ‘21 - so keep
Virtual Customer Testimonial
Chingying, the VP of Data Engineering at fictional fintech unicorn FetchDough made a short video to talk about how her team gets value from TerminusDB and TerminusHub. The guy drinking the beer at 1.22 has a lot to answer for!
Blogs and Articles
The New Stack wrote about TerminusDB and how we fit into the broader ecosystem
Our friends over at DBpedia featured a TerminusDB blog to announce our entry into the DBpedia association
The good people over at Dolt - our frenimies - even mentioned us in a blog. We are both working to define the Version Controlled Database category.
Product market fit - a blog on something we have been thinking about recently
A beautiful blog about creating a database from CSVs
And finally, a blog on the visual model builder
Terminators on Tech is Back
After a bit of a gap, Terminators on Tech is back. It will be once a month on Thursday at 4pm GMT; 5pm CET; 11am ET; 8am PT.
1st Thursday - Introduction to Knowledge Collaboration
2nd Thursday - World of WOQLCraft
3rd Thursday - Terminators on Tech
4th Thursday - World of WOQLCraft
(in the rare event that there is a 5th Thursday in a month, we’ll have a televised staring contest)
We also have a weekly ‘Issues and Docs Triage’ session in the TerminusDB Discord Server. We’ll gather up any GitHub issues and work out what docs are needed. If you have something you need to say, come along - the squeaky wheel will get the oil.
What: Issues and Docs Triage
Where: General Voice Channel
When: Every Thursday from this week until the end of time @ 2pm GMT; 3pm CET; 9am ET; 6am PT; 7.30pm IST
See you next time!