You heard it here first: the latest version of Fraxses is on track for release soon. In this blog we bring you a first look at the new features, capabilities and enhancements to look forward to in the upcoming release.
Following the established Fraxses convention, the new version takes its name from the animal kingdom and the African continent, which as home to such an abundance of magnificent creatures, never fails to provide inspiration. The release will be known as Oryx (Gemsbok) and is named after one of Southern Africa’s most iconic antelope species.
Recognisable by its distinctive markings and elegant curved horns, the oryx inhabits the arid regions of the Kalahari and Namib, which rank among the harshest environments on the planet. This unique antelope regulates its body temperature to conserve water and navigates inhospitable terrain with confidence and surefooted stability. Its ability to not only survive but thrive where few other creatures can makes the oryx a symbol of adaptability, resilience and resourcefulness.
These qualities, together with the oryx’s balance of strength, agility and visual symmetry, align with the latest Fraxses release, which is characterised by high performance, maximum efficiency and considered design. Oryx is built to perform reliably under pressure while delivering clarity, speed and precision.
Here’s a quick overview of the new release’s defining features and improvements.
Oryx introduces a new visual pinned home page with a System Activity dashboard that provides visibility into key backend events. Interactive pie charts display the count of activities such as cache jobs, validation requests, publication requests, publication approvals and discoveries.
A brand-new UI modernises the platform and delivers a future-ready user experience. Static menus and data grids have been replaced with an efficient application-driven navigation model that uses a collapsible explorer structure and an intuitive tab-based workflow. Traditional labelled buttons have given way to icon-based triggers, while avatar icons on tabs provide a clear indication of the record or object being viewed. Users can navigate through context-aware explorers, open multiple tabs for working across tasks and perform actions through standardised right-aligned modals. The result is a faster, more intuitive interaction style that reduces repetitive navigation and improves clarity.
The Discovery module has been expanded to deliver a streamlined and more intelligent experience. Entity, attribute and relationship metadata are retrieved in bulk and staged before discovery begins, allowing the system to detect changes, identify removals and maintain a history of past discoveries. A new Include/Exclude Entity selection grid provides clear indicators for changed, deleted or object-referenced entities, making selection significantly easier. Discovery now updates metadata using bulk merge operations and highlights any entities or attributes that have been removed from the source but are still referenced in existing Data Objects. The enhancements can reduce discovery times from hours to minutes and provide clearer insights, stronger governance and an improved user experience.
The latest release offers consistent file handling, faster onboarding of ad hoc datasets and a standardised path from file upload to governed queryable data sources. Users can upload a supported file type (CSV, XLS, XLSX, or Parquet) and create a local data source using the relevant connector, which suits teams that require governance over when and how new files become active data sources. Alternatively, users can upload a file and allow Fraxses to automatically create, configure and discover the data source. The dataset is immediately available for querying, accelerating access to data.
Oryx introduces a more flexible and configurable caching framework. Caches can be set up using a range of partitioning strategies, allowing data layout to be tailored for query and storage needs. Fraxses’s snapshot-based architecture enables incremental refreshes, time-travel queries, retention management and safe rollback without full cache rebuilds, ensuring high availability throughout cache refresh operations. Caching schedules now support grouped execution to coordinate related cache refreshes and can be deactivated when required. A new period-based cache type allows rolling cache windows to be maintained for improved relevance and storage control. Detailed execution history and automatic metadata tracking provide improved traceability, consistency and auditing of cache behaviour. These enhancements deliver improved cache performance, scalability and resilience.
The new Data Sync feature provides an efficient way to extract and consolidate data from multiple sources, offering an alternative to traditional union operations by executing a single pushdown query across distributed sources and combining the results into a Parquet file. An executable installed on each source registers the machine and enables participation in the run schedule. Key advantages include resilience to source downtime, uninterrupted access to the consolidated object and full execution history visibility for improved traceability.
The improvements that Oryx brings across discovery, caching, data synchronisation and UI represent another significant milestone in the ongoing evolution of the Fraxses platform, introducing a reliable foundation that supports current needs while putting things in place for future expansion.
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