ArangoDB 2.7 GA: Significant Improvements

Long awaited and now we´ve finished it! New major release of ArangoDB 2.7 is ready for download. First of all a big thanks to our community for your great support! We´ve implemented a lot of your ideas! After your feedback to RC1 and RC2 we are happy to bring a new major release to the…

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ArangoDB 2.6.9: Maintenance Release Highlights

In ArangoDB 2.6.9 we have fixed an AQL skiplist issue that occurs in a combination of sort and limit. When using a Skiplist index on an attribute (say “a”) and then using sort and skip on this attribute caused the result to be empty e.g.: require(“internal”).db.test.ensureSkiplist(“a”); require(“internal”).db._query(“FOR x IN test SORT x.a LIMIT 10, 10”);…

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ArangoDB 2.7 RC1: Preview the Latest Features

We put a lot of brainpower into the next major release of our favorite database. Thanks to your feedback and contributions we got some important steps forward. Share your professional experiences, opinions and feedback with us on this release candidate of ArangoDB 2.7. This is a quick info about the upcoming 2.7 release – for…

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ArangoDB Weekly 34: Updates, Tips, and Community Highlights

In just a few days we will publish our release candidate of ArangoDB 2.7. As secure performance and ease of use are our key goals, we worked hard on some nice improvements like Index Buckets (Reducing loading time for collections and enable faster resizing) Throughput Enhancements (Real world tests showed 25-75% increase of throughput compared…

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ArangoDB PHP Driver: Enhancements for Version 2.7

While preparing the release of ArangoDB 2.7, some improvements were made for the PHP driver for ArangoDB. The 2.7 version of the PHP driver now supports the AQL query results cache. The cache can be turned on or off globally, or be set to demand mode. The demand mode will allow controlling caching on a…

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ArangoDB 2.6.8: Latest Updates and Enhancements

The release ArangoDB 2.6.8 fixes a memory access bug on ARM. So for your pet project on a Raspberry Pi you need to change the CPU alignment setting to allow unaligned memory access. There is no need to update to 2.6.8 for other distributions.

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AWS AMI Upgrade: Enhancements and Improvements

ArangoDB is available as Amazon Marketplace Image (AMI) for free. The process to submit and publish a new ArangoDB image to the marketplace takes some time and you might not find the latest release in the marketplace store yet. However, updating to the latest version is not that hard. First, log in to the virtual…

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ArangoJS 4 Alpha: Available Now for Testing

The first alpha of the official JavaScript driver arangojs‘ upcoming major release is now available on npm. Version 4 streamlines the driver’s API by removing unnecessary server roundtrips to obtain references to collections and graphs that already exist: Before: var db = require(‘arangojs’)(); db.collection(‘users’) .then(function(collection) { return collection.import(allTheUsers) }) .then(function() { return db.collection(‘blogs’) }) .then(function(collection)…

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Building AQL Query Strings: Tips and Best Practices | ArangoDB Blog

I recently wrote two recipes about generating AQL query strings. They are contained in the ArangoDB cookbook by now: Avoiding parameter injection in AQL Writing multi-line AQL queries After that, Github user tracker1 suggested in Github issue 1457 to take the ES6 template string variant even further, using a generator function for string building, and…

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ArangoDB Weekly 33: V8 Upgrade and ArangoDB 2.6.7 Highlights

In the last two weeks we’ve fixed some issues, upgraded the bundled V8 version in ArangoDB and released the maintenance release 2.6.5 and 2.6.7 . Besides that we continued our efforts to enhance our indexing capabilities and startet further cluster tests. ArangoDB Release The next maintenance release for ArangoDB 2.6 is available for download. You…

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