Distribution

This page explains the difference between Cube Core and Cube Cloud, provides links to ready-to-use artifacts, and explains the versioning model and the release cycle, including the long-term support (LTS).

Cube Core and Cube Cloud

Cube Core is the universal semantic layer, developed by Cube Dev (opens in a new tab) and the community in open source under a permissive Apache License 2.0 (opens in a new tab). You can find its source code (opens in a new tab) on GitHub.

Cube Cloud is the managed platform for Cube Core, developed by Cube Dev as a commercial product (opens in a new tab). It includes everything from Cube Core and provides additional semantic layer features, managed infrastructure and workspace tools.

Cube can be used to refer to both products if the distinction is not important in a particular case.

You are welcome to either sign up for Cube Cloud (opens in a new tab) or self-host a Cube Core deployment.

Artifacts

Cube Core is packaged and distributed as Docker images that you can run in a containerized environment. You can find images for Cube (opens in a new tab) and Cube Store (opens in a new tab) on Docker Hub.

Note that Cube Store images support the linux/amd64 architecture while Cube images support both linux/amd64 and linux/arm64. The latter is convenient for Mac computers with Apple silicon (opens in a new tab) that you might use to run Cube locally.

Notably, the following tags are used with Docker images:

• v1.1.0 and similar, one tag per each released version.
• latest, always pointing to the latest release.
• dev, always pointing to the bleeding-edge image built for the latest commit.

Versions

Cube is actively developed, and new versions are released frequently.

Versions mostly follow SemVer (opens in a new tab) principles, with the only exception that breaking changes can happen both in major and minor versions. Before upgrading, it is recommended that you check the release notes (opens in a new tab) on GitHub and read changelog entries (opens in a new tab) in the blog.

Additionally, Cube Cloud provides update channels where versions are marked as either Stable or Latest.

Long-term support

To provide guarantees for the long-term support of Cube Core, some minor releases are designated as long-term support (LTS) releases.

For 12 months after being marked as LTS, these releases receive fixes for defects that significantly impact stability and functionality as well as the security fixes for critical vulnerabilities. It is recommended to use the latest patch version within an LTS release.

List of LTS releases: