ArangoDB PHP Driver Version 1.0 Released | ArangoDB 2012

Yesterday version 1.0 of the PHP driver for ArangoDB was released. It contains basic support for edges as well as fixes and tests. Check out the Changelog for further details. Many thanks go to Frank Mayer for his contribution! 🙂 There is also a comprehensive PHP driver tutorial available on Github.

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ArangoDB: Using JavaScript in the Database | ArangoDB 2012

Jan was invited as a speaker to “Js.Everywhere” in Paris. He talked about using Javascript in a database, well, ArangoDB, to be precise, giving lots of examples on “actions” and related concepts in ArangoDB. ArangoDB – Using JavaScript in the database from arangodb

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MRuby JIT and ArangoDB at RuPy 2012 | ArangoDB

@moonbeamlabs and I hold a workshop about ArangoDB and the Ruby driver Ashikawa, which will hopefully become one of the first DataMapper 2 NoSQL drivers. Currently, we are using the aequitas and virtus components of DataMapper 2. Slides of the workshop can be found on slideshare: Introduction to ArangoDB Introduction to Ashikawa I also gave…

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Comparing ArangoDB with CouchDB and MongoDB

The folks over at MongoDB have an article on their site on Comparing MongoDB and CouchDB. They write: “We are getting a lot of questions “how are mongo db and couch different?” It’s a good question: both are document-oriented databases with schemaless JSON-style object data storage. Both products have their place — we are big…

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ArangoDB 1.1 Feature Preview: Batch Request API | ArangoDB 2012

Clients normally send individual operations to ArangoDB in individual HTTP requests. This is straightforward and simple, but has the disadvantage that the network overhead can be significant if many small requests are issued in a row. To mitigate this problem, ArangoDB 1.1 offers a batch request API that clients can use to send multiple operations…

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ArangoDB 2012: Gain Factor of 5 with Batch Updates

ArangoDB 1.1 will come with a new API for batch requests. This batch request API allows clients to send multiple requests to the ArangoDB server inside one multipart HTTP request. The server will then decompose the multipart request into the individual parts and process them as if they were sent individually. The communication layer can…

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ArangoDB 1.01 Released: What’s New? | ArangoDB 2012

This version is deprecated. Download the new version of ArangoDB Quick note: ArangoDB 1.01 is available. This is a bugfix release. Check the “ArangoDB Google group” for the changelog . By the way – a lot of interesting discussions on ArangoDB, its feature roadmap and how it works in detail, are taking place there. Binaries…

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ArangoDB 2012: Performance Across Different Journal Sizes

As promised in one of the previous posts, here are some performance results that show the effect of different journal sizes for insert, update, delete, and get operations in ArangoDB.

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Get 20% Off: NoSQL Matters Barcelona | ArangoDB 2012

We are on the road again and are invited to give a talk at the “nosql matters”  in Barcelona. This is a one day conference in an amazing looking venue (UNESCO world heritage). Now the conference team offered us a couple of promo codes for “nosql matters” on October, 6th.  Katja, one of the organizers, writes:…

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Bulk Inserts Comparison: MongoDB, CouchDB, ArangoDB ’12

In the last couple of posts, we have been looking at ArangoDB’s insert performance when using individual document insert, delete, and update operations. This time we’ll be looking at batched inserts. To have some reference, we’ll compare the results of ArangoDB to what can be achieved with CouchDB and MongoDB.

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