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Monitoring ArangoDB and individual Foxx Apps with collectd
Great to know your database scales and database vendors like ArangoDB add some statistics on node / cluster health directly in their products. But running a bunch of different servers and applications you need a central hub to collect monitoring data from all services running. In a series of recipes Willi shows how you could…
Securing your Foxx with API Keys
ArangoDB’s Foxx allows you to easily build an API to access your data sources. But now this API is either public or restricted to users having an account, but those still get unlimited access. In many use cases you do not want to expose your data in this fashion, but you want to expose it…
ArangoDB 2.5 – Improved Foxx Development Process
This version is deprecated. Download the new version of ArangoDB Version 2.5 of ArangoDB makes the development of Foxx based apps a lot easier. For each of your Foxx apps you could activate the development mode individually, forcing a reread from disk at every request, and providing additional debug output. Set the development mode for…
Enhanced AQL in ArangoDB 2.5: Improved Query Capabilities
Contained in 2.5 are some small but useful AQL language improvements plus several AQL optimizer improvements. We are working on further AQL improvements for 2.5, but work is still ongoing. This post summarizes the improvements that are already completed and will be shipped with the initial ArangoDB 2.5 release.
Exploring More ES6 Features: ArangoDB Insights
ArangoDB 2.5 comes with an upgraded version of V8, Google’s open source JavaScript engine. The built-in version of V8 has been upgraded from 3.29.54 to 3.31.74.1. In addition to several already usable ES6 features (detailed in this blog, the following ES6 features are activated in ArangoDB 2.5 by default: iterators and generators template strings enhanced…
ArangoDB 2.4.4 Release: Stability and Performance Enhancements
This version is deprecated. Download the new version of ArangoDB A maintenance release for ArangoDB 2.4 is available for download or via your favorite package manager. v2.4.4 (2015-02-24) fixed the generation template for foxx apps. It now does not create deprecated functions anymore add custom visitor functionality for GRAPH_NEIGHBORS function, too increased default value of…
When and how to use sparse indexes in ArangoDB 2.5
This version is deprecated. Download the new version of ArangoDB In ArangoDB 2.5, hash and skiplist indexes can optionally be made sparse. Such sparse indexes will exclude documents in which at least one of the index attributes is either not set or has a value of null. Declaring an index as sparse can provide great…
ArangoDB 2.5 Beta: Test New Features & Enhancements
This version is deprecated. Download the new version of ArangoDB The current sprint comes to an end and ArangoDB 2.5 is available as beta. We appreciate your feedback and hope that many developers try this new beta release. We have used the last weeks to improve the Foxx framework for data-centric microservices – enhancing debug…
ArangoDB at NoSQL Matters Paris: Insights & Innovations
If you are interested in NoSQL and come from France, the NoSQL matters conference in Paris is your place to go. ArangoDB contributes with a workshop and a talk and is a silver sponsor of the conference as well. You can meet our team at the exhibition space and ask your ArangoDB questions in person….
ArangoDB in San Francisco: Exciting Developments & Events
Join parts of the ArangoDB team in San Francisco. Max and Claudius are visiting the Bay Area from mid-February till end of March. Starting with the StrataConf in San Jose, Feb 17–20, 2015 Max and Claudius want to meet people, start cooperations, visit meetups and tell people in the Bay Area about ArangoDB. If you…