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Speeding Up Dump Restore in ArangoDB: Enhanced Data Recovery
Many ArangoDB users rely on our `arangodump` and `arangorestore` tools as an integral part of their backup and recovery procedures. As such, we want to make the use of these tools, especially `arangodump`, as fast as possible. We’ve been working hard toward this goal in preparation for the upcoming 3.4 release. We’ve made a number…
Data retrieval performance optimizations in ArangoDB 3.3.9
Our recent release 3.3.9 includes several performance optimizations for data retrieval cases. Benefits can be expected for both storage engines, MMFiles and RocksDB, AQL batch lookup queries, and cluster AQL queries. MMFiles index batch lookups For the MMFiles engine, an optimization has been made for retrieving multiple documents from an index (hash index, skiplist index…
An implementation of phase-fair reader/writer locks
We were in search for some C++ reader/writer locks implementation that allows a thread to acquire a lock and then optionally pass it on to another thread. The C++11 and C++14 standard library lock implementations std::mutex and shared_mutex do not allow that (it would be undefined behaviour – by the way, it’s also undefined behaviour…
ArangoSearch architecture overview
In this article, we’re going to dive deeper into our recently released feature preview in Milestone ArangoDB 3.4 – ArangoSearch which provides a rich set of information retrieval capabilities. In particular, we’ll give you an idea of how our search engine works under the hood. Essentially ArangoSearch consists of 2 components: A search engine and…
Foxx CLI – Managing Microservices
Anyone who has ever worked with our JavaScript framework Foxx was faced at some point with the challenge to install its Foxx service in its current ArangoDB instance or to replace the installed service with local code changes. This is not a big deal and can easily be done through ArangoDB’s WebUI. However, we developers…
Static binaries for a C++ application
TL;DR; This describes how to generate a completely static binary for a complex C++ application which runs on all variants of Linux without any library dependency. ArangoDB is a multi-model database written in C++. It is a sizable application with an executable size of 38MB (stripped) and quite some library dependencies. We provide binary packages…
Win your free ticket and join ArangoDB @ JontheBeach 2018
We are thrilled to be attending one of Europe’s greatest events – JontheBeach (JOTB), an international rendezvous for developers and DevOps around Big Data technologies. No product talks just deep-tech topics presented by hand-picked speakers from Google, Apache Spark, RedHat, Stripe, Microsoft and many more.
Welcome to the ArangoDB family, Ted Dunning!
We are absolutely thrilled to announce that one of the brightest and most respected minds in open-source software joins ArangoDBs Advisory Council. Hi, Ted and welcome to the ArangoDB family! For those who don’t know Ted Dunning yet, maybe a quick introduction and the reason why the whole team is so amazed that he supports…
ArangoDB Easter Egg Hunt: Join the Fun and Discover Surprises!
While working hard on the next release and hacking away new interesting things to include into our favourite database, we decided to take a short break to have some fun just in time for Easter. All teams gathered together to do some Easter eggs coloring, chocolate-eating and fun-having 🙂 We’ve colored a lot of eggs…
Using the ArangoDB Swagger.io Interactive API Documentation
ArangoDB bundles its regular API Documentation also in Swagger.IO API description format. You can browse and explore it interactively via the ArangoDB Webinterface.