ArangoDB | Geo Demonstration Using Foxx – Location-Aware Applications

Geo data is getting more and more important for today’s applications. The growing number of location-aware services, IoT applications and other solutions using latitude and longitude ask for precise and fast processing of geo data. Let me show you in this quick demonstration how you can use geo functions and visualize your data using Foxx…

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Sorting number strings numerically

Recently I gave a talk about ArangoDB in front of a community of mathematicians. I advertised that nearly arbitrary data can “easily” be stored in a JSON based document store. The moment I had uttered the word “easily”, one of them asked about long integers. And if a mathematician says “long integer” they do not…

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Webinar: Use ArangoDB Agency as fault-tolerant persistent data store

Join our Sr Distributed System Engineer, Kaveh Vahedipour, to learn more about ArangoDB Agency on September 19th, 2017 (6PM CEST/12PM ET/ 9AM PT) – View the Recording. Distributed systems have become the standard topology on which modern appliances live. While the advantages of distributing workload for both performance as well as fault-tolerance are obvious, the…

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ArangoDB | VelocyStream Async Binary Protocol – Data Streaming

With the 3.2 release, ArangoDB comes with version 1.1 of the binary protocol VelocyStream. VelocyStream is a bi-directional async binary protocol which supports sending messages pipelined, multiplexed, uni-directional or bi-directional. The messages themselves are VelocyPack objects.

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ArangoDB | Pronto Move Shard – Multi-Model NoSQL Database

In July Adobe announced that they plan the End-of-Life for flash at around 2020. As HTML5 progressed and due to a long history of critical security vulnerabilities this is – technologically speaking – certainly the right decision. However I tended to also become a bit sad. Flash was the first technology that brought interactivity to…

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ArangoDB Webinar: Apps with ArangoDB & KeyLines

Wednesday, September 6th (5PM CEST/11AM ET/8AM PT) – Join the webinar here As data gets bigger, faster and more complex, you need to arm yourself with the best tools. In this webinar we’ll see how KeyLines and ArangoDB combine to create powerful and intuitive data analysis platforms.

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ArangoDB | Thank You for Your Interest in ArangoDB!

“By developers for developers” has been our internal motto since the first lines of ArangoDB code. Building an open-source project at such level of complexity and at a market competitive standard, undoubtedly puts a lot of pressure and almost solely relies on the support and trust of the community. Every victory counts, be it small…

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ArangoDB 3.2: RocksDB, Pregel, Fault Tolerant Foxx, Satellite Collections

We are pleased to announce the release of ArangoDB 3.2. Get it here. After an unusually long hackathon, we eliminated two large roadblocks, added a long overdue feature and integrated an interesting new one into this release. Furthermore, we’re proud to report that we increased performance of ArangoDB on average by 35%, while at the same…

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The new SatelliteCollections Feature of ArangoDB

With the new Version 3.2 we have introduced a new feature called SatelliteCollections. This post explains what this is all about, how it can help you, and explains a concrete use case for which it is essential. Background and Overview Join operations are very useful but can be troublesome in a distributed database. This is…

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ArangoDB Finalizes 4.2 Million Euro Investment Led by Target Partners

Funding to accelerate and strengthen the company’s US-based presence ArangoDB, the company behind one of the fastest growing next generation databases, closed the final tranche of a 4.2 million Euro investment led by Munich-based venture capital firm Target Partners. The company is developing the open-source NoSQL database ArangoDB, which combines three major data models (graph,…

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