Release 2.2.0

What's New

• Flexible Retention Policy (Auto-deletion):
  • Users can automatically have node removed from VDMS
• Internal Database Retry:
  • Retry query before asserting and exiting database
• Allow User-defined Operators in VCL:
  • User can define a new operator in VCL and expose it in the VDMS API. Provided a sample custom operation
• Improve Descriptor Search:
  • Fixed descriptor bug (insert multiple descriptors)
  • Added the ability to search descriptors by query blob AND constraints
• JPEG Storage Quality:
  • Image differences due to lossy compression of JPEG. Added disclaimer to user to use lossless format (PNG) for inference applications (https://github.com/IntelLabs/vdms/wiki/AddImage#inference-image-format )
• Increase Buffer Size:
  • We increased the max buffer size for database transactions to 1GB and set a default size of 32MB (previous max)
• Removed Dockerfiles:
  • Only provide base Dockerfile

2021_08_12 Release

This release includes an updated version of VDMS that compiles against updated versions of OpenCV, FAISS, and Protobuf.
Features Added:

1. Data deletion and expiration
2. VCL Image storage to Binary

Release 2.0.0

What's new

• Enhanced metadata store (through PMGD):

  • Fully ACID compliant transactions
  • Support for persistence for contemporary systems with no PM through MSYNC

• Support for user-defined blobs:

  • Insert and retrieve arbitrary blobs
  • Add and query user-defined properties for blobs

• Support for querying of relationships and its properties (FindConnection Command)

• Support for Visual Descriptors (aka feature vectors):

  • New commands for adding and indexing feature vectors.
  • Native support for k-nearest neighbor search operation at query time.
  • Support for Facebook's Faiss indexes
  • Support for a Sparse Arrays based indexes (through TileDB 1.3.1)
  • Support for Classification operation, based on user-defined labels.

• Enhanced support for operations over Images:

  • New Operation: Flip (vertical, horizontal, or both)
  • New Operation: Rotate (and optional resize adjust)
  • TileDB image format updated to TileDB 1.3.1

• Support for Bounding Boxes:

  • Support for insert/retrieve bounding boxes and links with images.

• Support for Storing and Accessing Videos (through OpenCV 3.4):

  • Support for codecs: h.264, xvid, h.263.
  • Support for containers: avi, mp4, mov.
  • Support for inserting and querying videos with user-defined properties.
  • Support for crop, resize, threshold, and interval operations at query time.

• Update Commands (Update for Entities, Connections, Images, Bounding Boxes and Videos)

• Full Support for Python3 (backward compatible with Python 2):

  • Installation of Python Client through pip
  • Simply run: pip install vdms

• Updated docker images (publicly available at docker.io/intellabs/vdms):

  • Very easy to have a VDMS Server running on your system
  • Simply run: docker run -it intellabs/vdms:2.0.0

• Bug fixes and performance enhancements

• Updated documentation:

  • New VDMS Commands (at github.com/IntelLabs/vdms/wiki)
  • PMGD API documentation (at github.com/IntelLabs/pmgd/wiki)

Compatible with PMGD v2.0.0 and VCL v1.0.0.

Release 1.0.0

Compatible with PMGD v1.0.0 and VCL v0.1.0