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November 20, 2025

Flat Format Launch & Critical Bug Fixes | Greptime Biweekly Report - No. 70

Flat Format Launch & Critical Bug Fixes | Greptime Biweekly Report - No. 70
GreptimeDB introduces Flat format for high-cardinality scenarios, fixes Metasrv backend state inconsistencies and compaction triggering issues. Upgrade to v1.0.0-beta.1 recommended.

Summary โ€‹

Together with our global community of contributors, GreptimeDB continues to evolve and flourish as a growing open-source project. We are grateful to each and every one of you.

Below are the highlights among recent commits:

  • Introduced Flat format for high-cardinality scenarios
  • Fixed Metasrv state inconsistency issues when using RDS as backend
  • Fixed compaction not triggering in certain cases

We recommend upgrading to v1.0.0-beta.1 to get these feature improvements and bug fixes!

Contributors โ€‹

For the past two weeks, our community has been super active with a total of 58 PRs merged. 2 PRs from 2 individual contributors were successfully merged, with many more pending.

Congrats on becoming our most active contributors in the past 2 weeks:

๐Ÿ‘ A big THANK YOU to all our members and contributors! It is people like you who are making GreptimeDB a great product. Let's build an even greater community together.

Highlights of Recent PRs โ€‹

db#7206 Enable Flat Format Support (Beta) โ€‹

An important new feature, Flat format, which has been in development for the past two months, is now available. You can enable it by specifying the table option 'sst_format' = 'flat' via ALTER TABLE or during table creation. This feature is included in the latest v1.0.0-beta.1 release. Please note that this operation is currently irreversibleโ€”once enabled, you cannot switch back from Flat format to the original format.

db#7199 Fix Potential State Inconsistency When Using PostgreSQL or MySQL as Metasrv Backend โ€‹

When using RDS as the backend for metadata storage, cluster state inconsistencies may occur. We strongly recommend that deployments relying on RDS upgrade to v1.0.0-beta.1 or later.

db#7213 db#7243 Improve Parallelism for COPY DATABASE and Partition Reads โ€‹

These changes enable concurrent processing of multiple tables or partitions during queries and data exports, significantly improving export performance.

db#7224 db#7239 Fix Compaction Not Triggering in Certain Cases โ€‹

We recommend that users on older versions upgrade to v1.0.0-beta.1 to avoid this issue.

Good First Issue โ€‹

Issue#6334 Enhance KILL Support for INSERT INTO SELECT Queries โ€‹

Enhance KILL support for INSERT INTO SELECT queries.

Keywords: Query engine

Difficulty: Medium

Issue#6621 Support Reverse Proxy Deployment โ€‹

Allow users to run GreptimeDB behind a reverse proxy alongside other services, which is a common deployment pattern.

Keywords: Server, Reverse proxy

Difficulty: Medium

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