Amazon FinSpace announces new features that enable customers to perform kdb database maintenance operations and execute long running analytics. First, writable dataviews enable writable copies of the contents of a kdb database. Second, support for long running scripts allow kdb processes to run to completion without timeouts. Together, they enable use of the KX dbmaint tool, commonly used to perform maintenance on databases.

Customers use kdb dbmaint operations to update historical database schemas and contents due to changing business requirements. For example, customers may need to add a new column or change a column type from an int to an long. You can read more about dbmaint here.

These features are available in all regions where Amazon FinSpace with Managed kdb Insights is available.

For more details on how to use these features to perform dbmaint, see the documentation.