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ArangoDB 1.2: Explore New Features | ArangoDB 2013
ArangoDB 1.2 API Changes: What You Need to Know | 2013
Apart from introducing several new features, the upcoming 1.2 version of ArangoDB will change a few of the existing REST API return values.
The API changes were necessary to make the ArangoDB’s APIs easier to use, more robust and portable.
We hope that the following list provides 3rd party client & driver maintainers with enough information to update drivers to work with ArangoDB 1.2.
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AQL: Query Documents and Graphs Easily | ArangoDB 2013
Note: The following article was originally written as an answer in ArangoDB google group. It may help other people to understand the scope of ArangoDB and/or AQL, so we posted it here as well.
AQL, the query language, provides access to the data which is stored inside collections. The collections contain documents, identified by unique keys.
Useful ArangoSH Tips and Tricks | ArangoDB 2012
arangosh, The ArangoDB shell, provides some options that may simplify an ArangoDB user’s life. Some of these options have been added in version 1.1.2, and some options have been around for a while but are probably still less known. It’s time to showcase them.
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Looking for Beta Tester for the Windows Port
We have a beta version of the Windows port ready for testing. If you are feeling adventurous you can try the brand new beta port of ArangoDB 1.1.1 for windows. Please note, that currently this port only contains the server. The following pieces are still missing:
- no management front-end to start/stop the server or install it as Windows service; the server must be started using a batch script
- arangosh: instead you can use the ArangoDB shell using the admin front-end in the browser
- arangoimp (bulk-importer)
To test the windows port:
- download the installer
- execute the MSI
- this will install the server and the support files und "c:\triagens" (or whatever directory you select)
- execute the batch script "serverExample.bat" in that directory
- wait until you see "Have fun"
- point your browser to "http://localhost:9000"
We have checked the MSI with Avira and tests it under XP, W7, W8. But there will be bugs. Please help us by reporting bugs you encounter using
https://github.com/triAGENS/ArangoDB
If you have improvements or comments, please let us know using the Google group.
ArangoDB Version 1.1 Released: What’s New? | ArangoDB 2012
ArangoDB version 1.1 was released today. Builds for major distributions can be found on the downloads page.
The new version offers several improvements, namely:
- an API for batch requests
- partial updates (i.e. HTTP PATCH) for documents
- improvements for AQL
- disk synchronisation improvements
- a statistics interface
- SSL support
The complete list can be found here.
If you plan on upgrading from an existing ArangoDB 1.0 to version 1.1, please make sure to also read the upgrade notes.
ArangoDB PHP Driver Version 1.0 Released | ArangoDB 2012
Yesterday version 1.0 of the PHP driver for ArangoDB was released. It contains basic support for edges as well as fixes and tests. Check out the Changelog for further details. Many thanks go to Frank Mayer for his contribution! 🙂
There is also a comprehensive PHP driver tutorial available on Github.
ArangoDB: Using JavaScript in the Database | ArangoDB 2012
Jan was invited as a speaker to “Js.Everywhere” in Paris. He talked about using Javascript in a database, well, ArangoDB, to be precise, giving lots of examples on “actions” and related concepts in ArangoDB.
MRuby JIT and ArangoDB at RuPy 2012 | ArangoDB
@moonbeamlabs and I hold a workshop about ArangoDB and the Ruby driver Ashikawa, which will hopefully become one of the first DataMapper 2 NoSQL drivers. Currently, we are using the aequitas and virtus components of DataMapper 2.
Slides of the workshop can be found on slideshare:
I also gave a short talk about the possibilities of using MRuby in ArangoDB. In preparation for this talk, Achim did some experiments using JIT compilation of the RiteVM bytecode using LLVM. The results are consistent with result for other byte-compiled languages. You can expect a speed-up of 2 using LLVM. In order to gain larger improvements one needs type inference and optimizations to the method selection. Luckily within a context like ArangoDB one can expects to be dealing a lot with primitives types (floats and strings) and a fixed environment. So it seems plausible that one can eventually get near the performace of V8.
Comparing ArangoDB with CouchDB and MongoDB
The folks over at MongoDB have an article on their site on Comparing MongoDB and CouchDB.
They write:
“We are getting a lot of questions “how are mongo db and couch different?” It’s a good question: both are document-oriented databases with schemaless JSON-style object data storage. Both products have their place — we are big believers that databases are specializing and “one size fits all” no longer applies.”
The same applies to ArangoDB, we meet a lot of people especially developers using MongoDB who are interested in ArangoDB and ask us how it is different than other popular nosql databases. In this article we would like to add our answers to the questions asked.
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