ArangoDB AQL Optimization: Returning & Modifying in v2.4

ArangoDB provides many options for finding and modifying data. Though there are several more specialized operation, data-modification AQL queries are the most general solution in ArangoDB. They allow to find documents using arbitrary filter criteria, and to modify or remove the documents once found. Read in Jan’s blog how INSERT, UPDATE, REMOVE and REPLACE operations…

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ArangoDB 2.4 Release: New Features & Enhancements

This version is deprecated. Download the new version of ArangoDB We are proud to announce the release of Version 2.4 of our multi-model database ArangoDB. It’s ready for download now and available for all major platforms. This release is a major step forward. Use Foxx to create your favorite microservice with a few clicks, dockerize…

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ArangoDB Weekly Newsletter – January 8, 2015

The ArangoDB team is back from holidays, wishing you and your families a happy New Year 2015. This year will become a good one for multi-model databases – like ArangoDB – according to analysts, quoted in the NoSQL trends 2015 article from Dataversity. This newsletter covers the last 3 weeks, including the beta of ArangoDB…

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Foxx SendGrid Integration: ArangoDB Tutorial

ArangoDB Foxx allows defining job queues that let you perform slow or expensive actions asynchronously. These queues can be used to send emails, call external APIs or perform other actions that you do not want to perform directly or want to retry on failure. Let’s say you want to send out an email every time…

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Crawling GitHub with Promises: ArangoDB Tutorial

The new Javascript driver no longer imposes any promises implementation. It follows the standard callback pattern with a callback using err and res. I wanted to give the new driver a try. A github crawler seemed like a good side-project, especially because the node-github driver follows the same conventions as the Javascript driver. There are…

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Weekly Newsletter – December 18, 2014 | ArangoDB Updates

ArangoDB Releases We released ArangoDB 2.3.3 – a maintenance release with some bug fixes. Here are some of the fixes: fixed error handling in instantiation of distributed AQL queries issue #1185: parse non-fractional JSON numbers with exponent (e.g. 4e-261) issue #1159: allow –server.request-timeout and –server.connect-timeout of 0 ArangoDB related (Drivers & more) aqb 1.4.1: ArangoDB…

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Getting Started with Guacamole in Rails: ArangoDB Tutorial

Please note that parts of this article will not work out of the box with ArangoDB 3.0 Using ArangoDB as your main database is a good idea for various reasons. What I personally like about it is its query language AQL. I used relational databases in the past as my main database and writing statements…

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Bulk Inserts: MongoDB vs CouchDB vs ArangoDB (Dec 2014)

More than two years ago, we compared the bulk insert performance of ArangoDB, CouchDB and MongoDB in a blog post. The original blog post dates back to the times of ArangoDB 1.1-alpha. We have been asked several times to re-run the tests with the current versions of the databases. So here we go.

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ArangoDB 2.3.3 Release: Enhancements & Bug Fixes

This version is deprecated. Download the new version of ArangoDB A maintenance release for ArangoDB 2.3 is available for download or via your favourite package manager. v2.3.3 (2014-12-17) ——————- * fixed error handling in instantiation of distributed AQL queries, this also fixes a bug in cluster startup with many servers * issue #1185: parse non-fractional…

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ArangoDB Query Builder: Simplifying Database Queries

The most powerful way to query your data in ArangoDB is by using ArangoDB’s own query language, AQL. In the past using AQL in your JavaScript code sadly would often require writing long, unwieldy strings. This made writing complex queries difficult and could often lead to subtle syntax errors or mistakes. The ArangoDB Query Builder…

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