On Getting Unique Values (Performance Comparison)
While paging through the issues in the ArangoDB issue tracker I came across issue #987, titled “Trying to get distinct document attribute values from a large collection fails”. The issue was opened...
View ArticleNative multi-model can compete with pure document and graph databases
Claudius Weinberger, CEO ArangoDB TL;DR Native multi-model databases combine different data models like documents or graphs in one tool and even allow to mix them in a single query. How can this...
View ArticleArangoDB Weekly #25 | Multi-Model Benchmarks, ArangoDB on Azure
This week we’ve released the third alpha for ArangoDB 2.6. Using this alpha3 release we’ve done our first benchmark article. Claudius wrote a blog post: Native multi-model can compete with pure...
View ArticleUsing Public Key infrastructure with Debian / Ubuntu repositories
We want to have a full chain of trust for our debian packages. Therefore the Suse Open Build Service (OBS) service signs them. We publish the key alongside the repository. However, one can do better...
View ArticleWorking with ArangoDB – Francis from Boostport
As an open-source project we are always happy when we learn about new projects that use ArangoDB and we are thankful for any feedback; on how working with ArangoDB and/or interacting with the team –...
View ArticlePerformance comparison between ArangoDB, MongoDB, Neo4j and OrientDB
My recent blog post “Native multi-model can compete” has sparked considerable interest on HN and other channels. As expected, the community has immediately suggested improvements to the published code...
View ArticleArangoDB Weekly #26 | OrientDB Benchmark
Last week we’ve published a benchmark post: Native multi-model can compete with pure document and graph databases. An article that attracted some great attention on HN / social media. Many asked us to...
View ArticleSpeeding Up Array/object Literal Access
Last week some further optimization slipped into 2.6. The optimization can provide significant speedups in AQL queries using huge array/object bind parameters and passing them into V8-based functions....
View ArticleAQL Improvements for 2.7
With ArangoDB 2.6 being in beta already, it’s time to look at some features scheduled for 2.7. Today I’ll showcase a few AQL parser improvements that are present in the devel branch already, which will...
View ArticleArangoDB Weekly #27 | Beta Release 2.6, AQL Preview for 2.7
This week we’ve released ArangoDB 2.6 beta! We would love to see you testing the beta and give us some feedback. If you are one of the great developers who made the drivers for ArangoDB, you should...
View ArticleNew Release ArangoDB 2.6
We are proud to announce the latest release of ArangoDB with lot’s of improvements and many new features. ArangoDB 2.6 is available for download for many different operating systems. In the new release...
View ArticleMeet Patrick, ArangoDB User and Community Contributor
In April 2015, Thomas Pfeiffer, a user experience researcher and active open-source contributor, did an interview with one very active member of the ArangoDB community – J Patrick Davenport from...
View ArticleHow an open-source competitive benchmark helped to improve databases
TL;DR: Our initial benchmark has raised a lot of interest. Initially we wanted to show that multi-model can compete with other solutions. Due to the open and competitive way we have conducted the...
View ArticleArangoDB Weekly #28 | New Release 2.6
This week we’ve finally released ArangoDB 2.6! Try it out and we would love to see some feedback. Look at our list of important changes in the API for 2.6 if you are one of ArangoDB’s developers. Alan...
View ArticleDockerizing a Bloom-based Nonces Service in 10 Minutes
In this article I want to explain how to setup a nonce-microservice using docker. Nonce are one-time tokens that are used to ensure that an action can only be taken once. In a project, we needed to...
View ArticleArangoDB 2.6.1 Maintenance Release
The first maintenance release for ArangoDB 2.6 is available for download. This maintenance release is only relevant for Mac, Windows and the Raspberry. v2.6.1 (2015-06-24) Add missing swagger files to...
View ArticleThe great AQL shootout: ArangoDB 2.5 vs 2.6
For the ArangoDB 2.6 release from last week we’ve put some performance tests together. The tests will compare the AQL query execution times in 2.6 and 2.6. The results look quite promising: 2.6...
View ArticleArangoDB Weekly #29 | new Release 2.6.1, updated Benchmark
This week we published a 2.6.1 maintenance release. A few weeks ago we published a performance comparison. Since it has raised a lost of interest and the discussions around it have led to improvements...
View ArticleArangoDB 2.6.2 | Maintenance Release
ArangoDB 2.6.2 maintenance release available – ArangoDB download fixed issue #1383: bindVars for HTTP API doesn’t work with empty string fixed handling of default values in Foxx manifest configurations...
View ArticleData Modeling with Multi-Model Databases
Max published an article on O’Reilly Radar about the use case he presented on Strata+Hadoop World in London earlier this year. Read how multi-model databases can be used in an aircraft fleet...
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