ArangoDB Weekly Newsletter – January 8, 2015

The ArangoDB team is back from holidays, wishing you and your families a happy New Year 2015. This year will become a good one for multi-model databases – like ArangoDB – according to analysts, quoted in the NoSQL trends 2015 article from Dataversity. This newsletter covers the last 3 weeks, including the beta of ArangoDB 2.4, build on christmas eve.

ArangoDB Releases

We released the ArangoDB 2.4 beta. You can find a full list of changes in our change-log. Here are some of the changes:

• We have upgraded our V8 version
• FoxxGenerator – A framework for building standardized Hypermedia APIs is added
• Our web interface for Foxx applications has got a complete re-design
• Some AQL improvements like optimizer and language improvements

ArangoDB related (Drivers & more)

• Clarango 0.6.0: Stefan Edlich and Peter Fessel updated their clojure driver to support Arango 2.3
• arango-session: J Patrick Davenport made a Ring compatible session manager built on ArangoDB

Documentation and Cookbook

• Crawling Github with Promises: How to crawl Github with the new Arango JavaScript Driver by Frank
• My First Foxx App: Lucas updated this recipe whereas it changed with 2.4
• Adding Background workers to my Foxx App: In this recipe it will be shown how to send out an email for existing Foxx apps
• How to deploy a Foxx App: This is a recipe by Lucas about the deployment of Foxx apps
• ArangoDB in the GiantSwarm using Docker containers: How to deploy in GiantSwarm by Frank

Questions on Stack Overflow

Answered:

• Range query with edge
• NodeJS custom session Store, clear expired sessions
• ArangoDB batch mode doesn’t work with the Java Driver
• Difference between Graph Triples and EAV
• ArangoDB REST Traversal return invalid startVertex
• ArangoDB Installation in Windows 8
• Insert and return document in a single AQL query
• Dump the database and reimport under a new name

Not answered yet:

• Java collections over ArangoDB
• Use multiply nested lists in few documents or few nested lists in many documents?

Events

• January 24, 2015 – Cambridge, UK: /dev/winter
• April 21-23, 2015 – Berlin, Germany: Netways

Articles

• Crawling GITHUB with Promises: How to crawl Github wit the ArangoDB JavaScript Driver
• Sending Mails via SendGrid: About Foxx background workers

Did you know?

You can test your Foxx applications with

$ arangod --javascript.dev-app-path /home/user/apps /tmp/fancy_db

This will start the ArangoDB server in development mode. For more information look here.

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