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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.
The ArangoDB Operator for Kubernetes – Stateful Cluster Deployments in 5min
At ArangoDB we’ve got many requests for running our database on Kubernetes. This makes complete sense since Kubernetes is a highly popular system for deploying, scaling and managing containerized applications. Running any stateful application on Kubernetes is a bit more involved than running a stateless application, because of the storage requirements and potentially other requirements…
ArangoDB Cluster Administration Course Released
Cluster Administration course will take you all the way from concept and anatomy of the ArangoDB cluster to maintenance, resilience and troubleshooting of your distributed environment. When data size or workload makes purchasing of a single database server prohibitive one needs to rethink the system architecture and consider to cluster a farm of more affordable…
Configuring ArangoDB-PHP to use active failover
This article is about setting up active failover for ArangoDB-PHP, the PHP client driver for ArangoDB. It requires ArangoDB-PHP 3.3.2 or higher, and an ArangoDB server version of 3.3.4 or higher. Interested in trying out ArangoDB? Fire up your cluster in just a few clicks with ArangoDB ArangoGraph: the Cloud Service for ArangoDB. Start your…
Index types and how indexes are used in ArangoDB: Part II
In the first part of this article we dived deep into what indexes are currently available in ArangoDB (3.2 and 3.3), also briefly looking at what improvements are coming with ArangoDB 3.4. Read Part I here. In this Part II, we are going to focus on how to actually add indexes to a data model…
How We Wronged Neo4j & PostgreSQL: Update of ArangoDB Benchmark 2018
Recently, we published the latest findings of our Performance Benchmark 2018 including Neo4j, PostgGreSQL, MongoDB, OrientDB and, of course, ArangoDB. We tested bread & butter tasks in a client/server setup for all databases like single read/write and aggregation, but also things like shortest path queries which are a speciality for graph databases. Our goal was…
Index types and how indexes are used in ArangoDB: Part I
As in other database systems, indexes can be used in ArangoDB to speed up data retrieval queries, sometimes by many orders of magnitude. Getting the indexes set up the right way is essential for good query performance, so this is an important topic that affects most ArangoDB installations. This is Part I of how indexes…