Alpha3 of ArangoDB 3.2: Support for Distributed Graph Processing
The next alpha release of the upcoming ArangoDB 3.2 is available for testing. You can download and install alpha3 here. Moving forward As ArangoDB 3.2 will include several new features and improvements, we realized that the release model that we currently follow has room for improvement. Going forward we will introduce milestone releases with ArangoDB…
Introducing milestone release model and why is it better
When developing ArangoDB, we want to share with you new features as early as possible. For example, the pregel implementation that will become part of ArangoDB 3.2 was ready for testing weeks before the release date of the first beta release and the final release of 3.2. Therefore we decided to create intermediate releases, called…
ArangoDB Online Meetup & Webinar Announced
Today we are glad to announce the start of ArangoDB Online meetup. As our international open-source community is growing with every passing day, we keep getting requests from members around the world on doing a tech meet or a short demo on ArangoDB. Quite a few members have already taken the initiative of presenting at…
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…