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Dockerizing a Bloom-Based Nonces Service in 10 Minutes
In this article I want to explain how to setup a nonce-microservice using docker. Nonce are one-time tokens that are used to ensure that an action can only be taken once. In a project, we needed to ensure that a pay button is only pressed once. Note that nonces are not used to sign requests…
Improving Databases: Open Source Competitive Benchmark
TL;DR: Our initial benchmark has raised a lot of interest. Initially we wanted to show that multi-model can compete with other solutions. Due to the open and competitive way we have conducted the benchmark, the discussions around it have lead to improvements in all products, better algorithms, faster drivers and better ways to use the…
Meet Patrick: ArangoDB User & Community Contributor
In April 2015, Thomas Pfeiffer, a user experience researcher and active open-source contributor, did an interview with one very active member of the ArangoDB community – J Patrick Davenport from Palatka, FL, USA. The aim was to get an idea about the open-source project ArangoDB as a whole and the development process so far –…
ArangoDB 2.6 New Release: Enhanced Features & Performance
We are proud to announce the latest release of ArangoDB with lot’s of improvements and many new features. ArangoDB 2.6 is available for download for many different operating systems. In the new release the focus is on performance improvements. For instance sorting on a string attribute is up to 3 times faster. There are also…
AQL Improvements for ArangoDB 2.7: Enhanced Query Capabilities
With ArangoDB 2.6 being in beta already, it’s time to look at some features scheduled for 2.7. Today I’ll showcase a few AQL parser improvements that are present in the devel branch already, which will be the foundation for the 2.7 release. Star operator The already existing star operator ([*]) is much more flexible in…
Speeding Up Array Operations: ArangoDB Performance Tips
Last week some further optimization slipped into 2.6. The optimization can provide significant speedups in AQL queries using huge array/object bind parameters and passing them into V8-based functions. It started with an ArangoDB user reporting a specific query to run unexpectedly slow. The part of the query that caused the problem was simple and looked…
Performance Comparison: ArangoDB vs MongoDB, Neo4j, OrientDB
The latest edition of the NoSQL Performance Benchmark (2018) has been released. Please click here My recent blog post “Native multi-model can compete” has sparked considerable interest on HN and other channels. As expected, the community has immediately suggested improvements to the published code base and I have already published updated results several times (special…