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Tour Around the New AQL Query Optimizer | ArangoDB Blog
The major new feature in ArangoDB 2.3 is the shiny new AQL query optimizer and executor. These parts of ArangoDB have been rewritten in 2.3 to make AQL much better for our end users. Since one of the initial releases, ArangoDB has been shipped with AQL, the ArangoDB Query Language. AQL has since then been…
ArangoDB 2.3 Beta 2: Available for Testing | ArangoDB Blog
This version is deprecated. Download the new version of ArangoDB A new beta release is available for testing. Please note that there are issues with the keys generated by the OBS. We will sort this out as fast as possible. Currently you simple have to trust the keys during install. This beta release contains various…
Improved Non-Unique Hash Indexes in ArangoDB 2.3
With ArangoDB 2.3 now getting into the beta stage, it’s time to spread the word about new features and improvements. Today’s post will be about the changes made to non-unique hash indexes. Read more on Jan’s Blog
Data Modeling: MongoDB vs ArangoDB | ArangoDB Blog
MongoDB is a document DB whereas ArangoDB is a multi-model DB supporting documents, graphs and key/values within a single database. When it comes to data modeling and data querying, they pursue somewhat different approaches. In a Nutshell: In MongoDB, data modeling is “aggregate-oriented”, avoiding relations and joins. On the other side, everybody has probably used…
Setting Up Test Data: ArangoDB Tutorial & Best Practices
Today I was asked to look at code that was supposed to read data from a MySQL data source, process it and then import it into ArangoDB. To run and debug the code I had to have some MySQL data source. So I thought I’d quickly set up a simple example table with a few…
Prepare your answers… ArangoDB at NYC Database-Month on 11/11
There is a warm-up routine on every evening at the NYC Database Month. Speakers ask trivia questions to the auditorium, related to the topic of the following talk. The first correct answer wins some “swag”. On Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2014 Max from ArangoDB will talk about Polyglot Persistence and multi-model NoSQL databases. To get a…
First Beta of ArangoDB 2.3: Explore New Features | ArangoDB Blog
This version is deprecated. Download the new version of ArangoDB We are proud to present ArangoDB 2.3. The first beta version is now available for download from our web-site or you can use “brew install –unstable arangodb” under Mac OS X. You can also look into the nightly documentation for more information. Please note that…
FullStack London
I recently had the chance to visit FullStack London, a well organized conference. Thanks a lot to Skills Matter. FullStack was opened by Douglas Crockford about “The Better Parts” of ES6. I cannot wait to start using them. Douglas was followed by Isaac Schlueter talking about open source in companies. Although this talk was not…
Set Up Bash Completion for ArangoDB: Step-by-Step Guide
I was interested in how bash auto-completion works and how to write a custom completer. After about an hour of work, I came up with a solution that at least seems to work on Ubuntu. I now have auto-completion for ArangoDB and all its client tools! The problem I use the command-line for almost everything,…
ArangoDB 2.2.6 Release: Enhancements & Bug Fixes
This version is deprecated. Download the new version of ArangoDB A maintenance release for ArangoDB 2.2 is available from the usual channels. v2.2.6 (2014-10-20) * fixed issue #972: Compilation Issue * fixed issue #743: temporary directories are now unique and one can read off the tool that created them, if empty, they are removed atexit…