Foxx Hackathon: Dive into ArangoDB Microservices | ArangoDB ’13
While the ArangoDB team is finishing the most wanted replication feature, there is another baby which needs our attention: Foxx. Lucas, Jan, Frank and Michael have spread the word about Foxx and collected feedback from the community. Now it’s time for the next step: we will have our second FOXX hackathon on July 26th-28th in…
ArangoDB ’13: Replication & Sharding for Scalability
UPDATE: ArangoDB 2 introduced sharding! 🙂 Original blog post: In ArangoDB’s google group there was recently an interesting discussion on what ArangoDB should offer in terms of replication and sharding. For the rest of you who does not follow the posts in the group, I have copied Frank Celler’s answer into this post: Frank writes:…
Ideas and Facts from Scotland.js in Edinburgh | ArangoDB ’13
Test Driven Development I have been one of the lucky attendants of scotland.js in Edinburgh recently. It was a really nice & informative conference, thanks to all people that made it possible. I did really like to see that TDD is reaching the front-end developers finally. A lot of useful tools for this have been…
ArangoDB 1.3.0 Released: Explore New Features | ArangoDB ’13
This version is deprecated. Download the new version of ArangoDB Features and Improvements The following list shows in detail which features have been added or improved in ArangoDB 1.3. ArangoDB 1.3 also contains several bugfixes that are not listed here. Changes to the Datafile Structure As the datafile structure has changed, please read the upgrade…
Foxx Screencast Part 2: Dive Deeper | ArangoDB ’13
It has taken some time, but now part 2 of the Foxx Screencast is available. I talk about some more advanced topics of Foxx and also plans for the future. https://www.youtube.com/embed/d3TPtXEGhfk?rel=0
ArangoDB 1.3 Alpha1 Release & First Foxx Screencast | ArangoDB ’13
Starting today you can install the first Alpha of the upcoming release of ArangoDB version 1.3. Some of the new features are: * ArangoDB Foxx: A lightweight way to define APIs directly on top of ArangoDB * Traversals: Define traversals to explore your graphs stored in ArangoDB * A new and improved Frontend: Featuring a…
Foxx – a lightweight Javascript application framework for ArangoDB
Edit: From version 1.4 the ArangoDB user manual available online also includes the documentation for FOXX. For the last months we have been working on Foxx – a brand new Javascript framework on top of the upcoming version of the free and open source NoSQL database ArangoDB. Foxx allows you to build APIs directly on…
ArangoDB 2013: Simplify Database Management with Auto-Increment
The most recent versions of ArangoDB offer more detailed control over what values will be auto-generated for the _key and _id attributes of documents. They also allow using predictable auto-increment sequences.
German Video: NoSQL Meets Mobile Cologne | ArangoDB 2013
Last week Jan (core member of ArangoDB and the brain behind AQL and many other parts) was invited by “mobile.cologne” – a user group here in Cologne dealing with mobile development. In this talk Jan gives a general overview on nosql databases and the different flavors. He explains how to query a nosql database and…
Getting Started with ArangoDB & Symfony: Part 1 | ArangoDB 2013
This is part 1 (of 4) of an introduction to the use of ArangoDB together with Symfony 2. You’ll find the links to the other parts of this tutorial at the end of this text. In this tutorial we will implement a very simple movie database as an example of how to use ArangoDB together…