Where To Start
Welcome to the dawn of a new era in data management with Denodo Platform 9. Get ready to elevate your data strategy and unlock unprecedented business value.
Denodo Platform 9 revolutionized data management by enabling seamless self-service, improving operational efficiency, and enhancing security protocols. Building on this strong foundation, Denodo Platform 9.3* adds enhancements supporting greater agility, security, and developer productivity for AI and data products, particularly in dynamic operational environments. New features like dynamic access control, handling schema evolution in materialized views, and write-back to Iceberg tables further solidify the Denodo Platform as a foundation for AI innovation. 9.3 strengthens Denodo’s position as the fastest way to deliver trusted enterprise data to both human and AI consumers in real time.
Here are a few resources to get you started:
- Main enhancements of Denodo Platform 9.3: What’s new in Denodo Platform 9.3
- Denodo Platform 9 User Manuals: Be sure to see the Changes in Denodo Platform 9 document and the Denodo Platform New Features Guide
If you're interested in upgrading your existing Denodo Platform installation to the new version 9, we encourage you to review these resources:
- Denodo 9 Knowledge Base Article: Ready to work with Denodo Platform 9
- Denodo 9 Knowledge Base Article: Upgrade to Denodo 9: Best Practices and Checklist
- Denodo TechTalk: Laying down the upgrade path for your existing enterprise software
Powered by Data Virtualization, supporting over 200 data sources and applications, and running on all major clouds plus on-premise, Denodo offers the ability to unify and govern the broadest range of enterprise data in the market, and to deliver to all data consumers at the speed of business .
In addition to Denodo Platform 9.3, organizations can also deploy the Denodo Platform through Agora, the Denodo Cloud Service, now available on both AWS and Azure. While Agora is a separate solution, it includes all of the same capabilities as Denodo Platform 9.3, with the added flexibility of choosing a fully managed environment with the cloud provider that best fits your strategy. Explore the following Agora resources:
- Agora Guide
- Quick Start Guide: Agora Quick Start Guide
- Denodo Tutorial: Agora Data Integration
* The latest Long Term Support (LTS) version is Denodo Platform 9.2
LTS versions will get guaranteed patch releases (9.2.x) with bug fixes and security patches for 1 year.
Discover the New Features
This latest release brings further improvements that solidify the Denodo Platform as a foundation for AI innovation.
Denodo Data Marketplace: Enabling Universal Data Access
Denodo Platform 9.3 delivers a full data marketplace, enabling users across the enterprise to seamlessly find, understand, and utilize data.
- Revamped Data Marketplace - Formerly known as the Denodo Data Catalog, the redesigned e-commerce style user experience enhances discoverability and accessibility, providing a true marketplace experience. Users can now explore and interact with data assets more intuitively, making data easier to find, understand, and consume, without relying on technical teams.
- Read the User Manual: Data Marketplace Guide - Introducing the Data Marketplace
- Try the new UI by yourself following this tutorial: Using the Denodo Data Marketplace
- Watch the video Denodo Platform 9.3 Update - Data Marketplace
- New Additions to Query and Data Preparation Wizards – The new Data Marketplace comes with a couple of small but important additions: Return Unique Values and Navigate Multiple Levels of Relationship Hierarchies.
- Read the User Manual: Data Marketplace Guide - Query of Views, Data Marketplace Guide - Data Preparation
In addition to the enhancements mentioned above, the Denodo Data Marketplace brings together multiple innovations from recent releases, now unified under the redesigned marketplace user experience in 9.3. Key enhancements from previous releases include natural language querying powered by GenAI, enabling users to query data without SQL expertise, and full data lineage and visibility into reports and dashboards. Denodo Assistant enhances this further by guiding users through a variety of tasks, including recommending relevant datasets based on past searches. Workflow automation provides a seamless experience for data related tasks that require collaboration, such as data access requests, asking questions of the data owner, data quality issues, and change management triggered by metadata updates. Together, these features create an intuitive, ecommerce-like experience, making it easier than ever to find, access, and consume the data you need.
- Watch these videos: Data Marketplaces: Enabling Universal Data Access , Configuration of AI Integration in The Data Catalog , Assisted Queries by AI in the Data Catalog , Intelligent Data Fabric with Denodo Assistant , Data Preparation in the Data Catalog
- Read the User Manuals: Data Marketplace Guide: Assisted Query , Data Marketplace Guide - External Elements , Denodo Assistant View Features , Data Marketplace Guide: Data Preparation, Data Marketplace Guide: Add a Derived Field using Recommendations
- Attend the Denodo TechTalk Denodo Data Catalog Delivers Data at the speed of Business at your Fingertips
Are you looking for something else? Try the updated course Data Discovery with the Denodo Data Marketplace
Data Product Development: Greater Agility for Materialization and Security
Denodo Platform 9.3 delivers significant enhancements to streamline data product development while maintaining governance and efficiency.
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Materialized Views and Data Caches Now Resilient to Schema Evolution – This enables much more agile data product change management in dynamic environments where data schemas and other metadata frequently change. This also enables faster incremental updates to data lakehouses such as Snowflake and Databricks. In addition, now incremental load conditions and target tables can be more easily configured.
- Watch the video Denodo Platform 9.3 Update - Materialization of Data
- Read the User Manual: Virtual DataPort Administration Guide - Configuring the Materialization of a View (pka Cache)
- DAG Loading Workflows – The DAG loading job in Denodo Scheduler has been enhanced and now includes a graphic with the tables involved and the dependencies across them:
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Dynamic Access Controls: – A new type of access control policy that enables the performance of on-demand lookups of policy conditions as data is being accessed. This enables much greater agility in dynamic environments where operational data and its privacy and security needs frequently change.
- Read the User Manual: Virtual DataPort Administration Guide - Dynamic Restrictions Policy
These innovations make it easier for organizations to develop and deploy high-quality data products while maintaining control, security, and performance.We encourage you to watch this TechTalk End-to-End Data Product Lifecycle Management with Denodo to explore the full lifecycle of a data product, powered by the Denodo Platform
Advancing AI: Staying Ahead in the Evolution of GenAI
Denodo Platform 9.3 continues to advance data management capabilities that accelerate the adoption of GenAI, so organizations can seamlessly provide AI models with high-quality, well-governed, real-time data. As AI rapidly evolves, Denodo remains committed to delivering innovations that optimize data accessibility, security, and performance—empowering organizations to maximize the value of their AI investments.
- Auto-generation of business context: – The Denodo Platform’s rich semantic layer has always enabled AI applications to use the correct, most relevant data for the task at hand,
and Denodo Assistant’s AI-assisted features have automated common data engineering tasks.
Now, in 9.3, Denodo Assistant auto-generates metadata tags and attributes that specify business context.
- Watch the video Denodo Platform 9.3 Update - Denodo Assistant
- Read the documentation Denodo Platform Administration Guide - Denodo Assistant View Features - Suggest Tags for View
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Embedded vector database: – Denodo Platform 9.3 can now automatically generate and update embeddings for the metadata and store them in a vector database for AI use. This accelerates time-to-value of data for AI projects, and less overhead in populating and maintaining Denodo’s semantic layer,
so AI applications consistently use the most relevant, trusted enterprise data.
- Watch the video Denodo Platform 9.3 Update - Denodo Assistant
- Read the documentation Virtual DataPort Administration Guide - Denodo Assistant - Vector Database Integration
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DeepQuery in the Denodo AI SDK: This is a groundbreaking new capability in the Denodo AI SDK. While Query RAG is ideal for fact-based questions like “What’s our churn rate in the Northeast?” DeepQuery goes further — enabling complex, analytical questions such as “Why is churn increasing, and what factors are driving it?”
- Read our Data Management Blog: Smarter AI Starts Here: Why DeepQuery Is the Next Step in GenAI Maturity
- Watch this video Demo: Denodo DeepQuery
- Read the documentation Denodo AI SDK
- Clone the repository GitHub - denodo/denodo-ai-sdk
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Write-Back to Iceberg Tables through Databricks Unity: With the Denodo Platform, you can now build AI agents and other applications that can write back to Iceberg tables managed by Databricks Unity. For organizations with a Databricks lakehouse-centric data architecture, Denodo now further augments the lakehouse in operational environments where data is frequently updated.
- Read the documentation Embedded MPP Guide - Unity Catalog
In addition to the enhancements mentioned above, Denodo Platform 9.3 brings multiple AI innovations from recent releases, including:
- Expanded support for leading LLMs – With broader compatibility for
Mistral, DeepSeek, SambaNova, Google AI Studio, and NVIDIA NIM, Denodo provides organizations with
greater flexibility in their AI-driven initiatives. The open source Denodo AI SDK now
enhances SQL generation pipelines with multi-step query review and self-fixing capabilities, improving
accuracy while reducing manual intervention.
Optimized token usage ensures faster, more cost-effective AI interactions, while new vectorization
techniques streamline metadata handling for performance at scale.
- Watch the video Advancing AI
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GenAI-Powered Data Enrichment in SQL – Denodo Platform brings the power of LLMs to
process unstructured data sources, enabling seamless integration of GenAI capabilities as part of
standard SQL queries. Whether extracting sentiment from social media posts or analyzing images, users
can now apply SQL queries alongside LLM-driven insights to enrich their data products with valuable
contextual information from unstructured data sources.
- Read the User Manual: Large Language Model Functions
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AI Recommendations in Denodo Assistant – Denodo Assistant now includes AI-powered join
modeling recommendations, helping to accelerate the creation of new data views, especially when no
predefined relationships exist.
- Watch the video Denodo Platform 9.2 Update - Advancing AI
- Read the documentation Denodo Assistant Features that Use Large Language Models
The Denodo AI SDK works in conjunction with Denodo Platform 9.1 or later, including the freely downloadable Denodo Express, and the free trials and purchased subscriptions of Agora. Also check these useful resources: Read the Denodo AI SDK User Guide , try the Building an AI Chatbot with Denodo in Minutes Tutorial, watch On-demand the Denodo TechTalks Use Denodo and data fabric to enable RAG implementation and Denodo Supercharges AI for Enterprises with NVIDIA's NIM Integrations, and clone the Denodo AI SDK GitHub Repository for collaboration.
By continuously evolving its AI capabilities, Denodo enables enterprises to leverage GenAI more effectively—enhancing decision-making, automating complex workflows, and delivering AI-driven insights with greater precision. These innovations keep organizations at the forefront of AI-driven transformation, maximizing the impact of their data investments.
- Accelerating GenAI expertise for data professionals – To help technical professionals quickly master emerging GenAI technologies, Denodo has introduced a GenAI Hands-on Lab , providing a practical, guided learning experience for building AI-driven applications. Additionally, the new Denodo AI SDK Certified Developer Associate within the Denodo Certified Professional Program equips professionals with the necessary skills for effectively implementing and managing AI-powered data solutions, so organizations can rapidly build AI expertise and drive innovation.
More Features of Denodo Platform 9
Enhanced Lakehouse Integration and Query Performance
Data lakehouses provide a single infrastructure that supports different analytical workloads such as data engineering, data science, artificial intelligence/machine learning engineering, and business intelligence. Data lakehouse solutions from providers such as Snowflake and Databricks have enjoyed broad adoption in the enterprise, and Denodo has facilitated their migration and adoption by providing a single semantic interface for all business users, improving query performance and reducing operating costs.
Your teams will benefit from simplified configurations, intuitive interfaces for Delta and Iceberg tables, and enhanced analytics capabilities, making data lakehouses more accessible and actionable and improving the value you can derive from them.
- Watch these videos: Enhanced Delta Table File support and Integrated Execution Trace for Embedded MPP
- Read the latest User Manual: Embedded MPP Guide
- Try the brand-new course Denodo Embedded MPP based on Presto
Designed as the next-generation SQL query protocol, Denodo is adding support for Arrow Flight SQL and building the foundation to further accelerate query performance across lakehouses and cloud based data warehouse solutions.
- Read the documentation: Access Through Flight-SQL
- What this video: High-speed Data Transfer
An Improved Developer Experience
We’ve made a variety of improvements in how developers interact with the Denodo Platform, making it more intuitive and boosting productivity. Key highlights include enhanced DevOps support for seamless collaboration, integrated Scheduler jobs for efficient task management, a new Welcome portal for faster onboarding, and a redesigned data source panel for easier access and manipulation.
- Watch these videos: Workspace Support for CI-CD Improved developer experience in Design Studio , New data source panel in the Design Studio , and Native MongoDB adapter with graphical introspection
- Read the User Manual: VCS Configuration - Workspaces , Scenarios and Recommended Uses - Workflow Based on Workspaces and Branches , Virtual DataPort Administration Guide: Cache Refresh Jobs
- Try these new features by yourself, following this tutorial: Denodo Basics
- Attend the Denodo TechTalk: Improving Denodo's Development Practices Using Version Control
Are you looking for something else? Try the brand-new courses Logical Data Management for Architects , Implementing My First Logical Data Integration , Beyond Query Optimizer: A Journey into Query Optimization Excellence and Data Discovery with Denodo Data Catalog .
Segregation of Administrative Duties
Enhanced security with fine-grained control through the segregation of administrative duties, enabling organizations to grant administrative users the privileges to change server settings while preventing them from accessing data.
- Read the User Manual: Virtual DataPort Administration Guide: Default Roles
Enhanced Inspection and Auditing Tools
New tools for inspecting and auditing data access policies, enhancing oversight and compliance. These improvements enable robust data protection and operational integrity.
- Read the User Manuals: Virtual DataPort Administration Guide: Privilege Auditing
Are you looking for something else? Try the brand-new courses Logical Data Management for Architects , to learn architectural patterns for the Denodo Platform and best practices for performance optimization, data services governance, scalability, and operation.