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Arango Weekly 31: Official Docker Repo & New Release 2.6.3
ArangoDB is now an Official Repo in the Docker Hub, one of just four additions in the last 2 months. Please try and tell your friends! ArangoDB 2.6 is known as a performance release and we’ve continued to improve the core by killing locks and optimizing code. Looks like we can show some impressive performance boosts soon. Furthermore, Mike…
AQL Object Literal Simplification: ArangoDB Query Optimization
ArangoDB’s devel branch recently saw a change that makes writing some AQL queries a bit simpler. The change introduces an optional shorthand notation for object attributes in the style of ES6’s enhanced object literal notation. For example, consider the following query that groups values by age attribute and counts the number of documents per distinct…
ArangoDB 2.6.3: Maintenance Release for Stability & Performance
A maintenance release of ArangoDB is available, we have fixed an issue with NULL bytes inside attribute values (#1409) that occurs when fetching a document via REST API. Release 2.5.6 and 2.6.3 can be downloaded from arangodb.com/download now.
Mastering AQL: Return Distinct Values | ArangoDB Blog
Last week saw the addition of the RETURN DISTINCT for AQL queries. This is a new shortcut syntax for making result sets unique. For this purpose it can be used as an easier-to-memorize alternative for the already existing COLLECT statement. COLLECT is very flexible and can be used for multiple purposes, but it is syntactic…
ArangoDB Nightly Travis Builds: Continuous Integration Updates
Great news for driver maintainers that want access to the latest developments in ArangoDB. Many of you have asked us if we can provide a nightly build of our ArangoDB database to improve CI test automation using Travis-CI. The Travis builds for ArangoDB 2.6, 2.7 and devel will be generated and published shortly after midnight…
ES6 Features in New V8 Upgrade | ArangoDB Blog
ArangoDB 2.6 uses V8 engine version 3.31.74.1 for running its own and all user-defined JavaScript code. In ArangoDB 2.7 (currently in development), we have upgraded V8 to version 4.3.61. The new V8 version in ArangoDB 2.7 provides several additional ES6 Harmony features that can be used to improve JavaScript usability and code quality. This blog…
Multi-Model Benchmark: Round 1 Results | ArangoDB Blog
The latest edition of the NoSQL Performance Benchmark (2018) has been released. Please click here It’s time for another update of my NoSQL performance blog series. This hopefully concludes the first part of this series with the initial databases ArangoDB, MongoDB, Neo4J and OrientDB and I can now start to check out other databases. I’m…
Data Modeling with Multi-Model Databases: ArangoDB Insights
Max published an article on O’Reilly Radar about the use case he presented on Strata+Hadoop World in London earlier this year. Read how multi-model databases can be used in an aircraft fleet maintenance system by mixing different data models within the same data store. A query language like AQL can help to answer maintenance questions…
ArangoDB 2.6.2: Maintenance Release for Enhanced Stability
ArangoDB 2.6.2 maintenance release available – ArangoDB download fixed issue #1383: bindVars for HTTP API doesn’t work with empty string fixed handling of default values in Foxx manifest configurations fixed handling of optional parameters in Foxx manifest configurations Read more about the new features in ArangoDB 2.6 in our What’s new article, the AQL 2.5…
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