Arangochair – a tool for listening to changes in ArangoDB
The ArangoDB team gave me an opportunity to write a tutorial about arangochair. Arangochair is the first attempt to listen for changes in the database and execute actions like pushing a document to the client or execute an AQL query. Currently it is limited to single nodes. This tutorial is loosely based on the example…
ArangoDB 3.2 Alpha 2: Preview of Upcoming Release
The official ArangoDB 3.2 release is almost around the corner. In the meantime, you can play around and test some of the upcoming new features as they come along. The alpha2 version of the upcoming ArangoDB 3.2 is available for testing and can be downloaded here. If you already have ArangoDB installed, please remember to…
Arangoexport – a tool for exporting data from ArangoDB
With the release of the initial alpha of ArangoDB version 3.2 we also include the preview of the new export tool arangoexport. Alpha2 of ArangoDB 3.2 can be downloaded here. An export functionality was initially requested by one of our community members to view an ArangoDB graph view the Cytoscape visualizer. Arangoexport is capable of…
Florian Leibert & Luca Olivari Join ArangoDB
We have some amazing news today. Two brilliant minds are joining ArangoDB and our recently founded Advisory Council. Florian Leibert is CEO of Mesosphere and Luca Olivari former Executive at Oracle and MongoDB. Together with their rare expertise we can further sharpen our focus on cutting edge technologies and accelerate our growth. Maybe a few…
ArangoDB: Consensus for Enhanced Data Stability
nihil novi nisi commune consensu nothing new unless by the common consensus – law of the polish-lithuanian common-wealth, 1505 A warning aforehand: this is a rather longish post, but hang in there it might be saving you a lot of time one day. Introduction Consensus has its etymological roots in the latin verb consentire, which…
ArangoDB 2016 – A Year in Review
Important Steps this Year 2016 is about to see its final days and things are calming down, so Frank and I thought about the year that lies behind us. It was a really exciting year for the whole ArangoDB project and for us as founders. In 2016 we saw our team doubling in size, ArangoDB…
Starting an ArangoDB cluster the easy way
Recently, we have got a lot of feedback about the fact that standing up an ArangoDB cluster “manually” is an awkward and error-prone affair. We have been aware of this for some time, but always expected that most users running ArangoDB clusters would do so on Apache Mesos or DC/OS, where deployment is a breeze…
ArangoDB FoxxChallenge: Developer Competition
The Challenge Starting today we launch the ArangoDB #FoxxChallenge and the winner will receive a brand new Amazon Echo. Use your knowledge about everyday needs in projects and create a Foxx service that could be helpful for others. If you need some inspiration here some ideas:
ArangoDB Snapcraft Packaging: Simplified Deployment
ArangoDB Packaging With ArangoDB 3.0 we reworked the build process to be based completely on cmake. The packaging was partly done using cpack (Windows, Mac), for the rest regular packaging scripts on the SuSE OBS were used. With ArangoDB 3.1 we reworked all packaging to be included in the ArangoDB Source code and use CPack….
ArangoDB Secures €2.2M Investment Led by Target Partners
Funding to accelerate the company’s product development and international expansion Munich/Cologne (Germany), November 24th, 2016: – ArangoDB GmbH (www.arangodb.com), the company behind one of the fastest growing next generation databases, has landed a 2.2 million Euro investment led by Munich-based venture capital firm Target Partners (www.targetpartners.de). The company develops the open-source NoSQL database ArangoDB, which…