ArangoDB 1.3 Alpha1 Release & First Foxx Screencast | ArangoDB ’13

Starting today you can install the first Alpha of the upcoming release of ArangoDB version 1.3. Some of the new features are:

* ArangoDB Foxx: A lightweight way to define APIs directly on top of ArangoDB
* Traversals: Define traversals to explore your graphs stored in ArangoDB
* A new and improved Frontend: Featuring a new design and various improvements
* And more: Multi-Collection transaction support, user defined functions in AQL, more builtin AQL functions and AQL improvements, bug-fixes…

ArangoDB Foxx: The first screencast If you want to get a first look at ArangoDB Foxx, you can now see our first screencast. Lucas talks about the motivation and goals of Foxx and introduces you to the basics. A second screencast will follow with more advanced techniques like our Repositories and Models:

How to install it?

• If you are on a Mac and using Homebrew, you can install it now via brew install --devel arangodb.
• If you are compiling ArangoDB by yourself, checkout the branch 1.3 from github and compile it.
• if you are using Linux, we have create package for the usual distributions. You can download them from here.