ArangoDB 1.2.0 Released: What’s New? | ArangoDB 2013

We are proud to announce the release of ArangoDB 1.2.0. You can find an overview of the new features in these blog posts:

github, the binary packages from our download page. The new version has also been submitted to homebrew and Apple's AppStore.

Last Minute Remarks

We have decided to switch the statistics functions off, by default.
You can switch them on by changing the config file. The current statistics functions are now obsolescent. We want to switch to a more flexible and less time consuming implementation in 1.3.

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ArangoDB 1.2: Simplifications Overview | ArangoDB 2013

The upcoming 1.2 version of ArangoDB will provide several improvements and fixes.
Apart from the additional features the new version provides, the following changes might also be very interesting for users and driver maintainers:
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ArangoDB 1.2: Explore New Features | ArangoDB 2013

We have just released beta2 of ArangoDB 1.2. It is available for download here.
For everyone interested in trying the new version, here’s a quick overview of its major new features & changes:
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ArangoDB 1.2 API Changes: What You Need to Know | 2013

Apart from introducing several new features, the upcoming 1.2 version of ArangoDB will change a few of the existing REST API return values.
The API changes were necessary to make the ArangoDB’s APIs easier to use, more robust and portable.

We hope that the following list provides 3rd party client & driver maintainers with enough information to update drivers to work with ArangoDB 1.2.
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AQL: Query Documents and Graphs Easily | ArangoDB 2013

Note: The following article was originally written as an answer in ArangoDB google group. It may help other people to understand the scope of ArangoDB and/or AQL, so we posted it here as well.

AQL, the query language, provides access to the data which is stored inside collections. The collections contain documents, identified by unique keys.

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Looking for Beta Tester for the Windows Port

We have a beta version of the Windows port ready for testing. If you are feeling adventurous you can try the brand new beta port of ArangoDB 1.1.1 for windows. Please note, that currently this port only contains the server. The following pieces are still missing:

  • no management front-end to start/stop the server or install it as Windows service; the server must be started using a batch script
  • arangosh: instead you can use the ArangoDB shell using the admin front-end in the browser
  • arangoimp (bulk-importer)

To test the windows port:

  • download the installer
  • execute the MSI
  • this will install the server and the support files und "c:\triagens" (or whatever directory you select)
  • execute the batch script "serverExample.bat" in that directory
  • wait until you see "Have fun"
  • point your browser to "http://localhost:9000"

We have checked the MSI with Avira and tests it under XP, W7, W8. But there will be bugs. Please help us by reporting bugs you encounter using

https://github.com/triAGENS/ArangoDB

If you have improvements or comments, please let us know using the Google group.

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ArangoDB Version 1.1 Released: What’s New? | ArangoDB 2012

ArangoDB version 1.1 was released today. Builds for major distributions can be found on the downloads page.
The new version offers several improvements, namely:

  • an API for batch requests
  • partial updates (i.e. HTTP PATCH) for documents
  • improvements for AQL
  • disk synchronisation improvements
  • a statistics interface
  • SSL support

The complete list can be found here.

If you plan on upgrading from an existing ArangoDB 1.0 to version 1.1, please make sure to also read the upgrade notes.

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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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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 believers that databases are specializing and “one size fits all” no longer applies.”

The same applies to ArangoDB, we meet a lot of people especially developers using MongoDB who are interested in ArangoDB and ask us how it is different than other popular nosql databases. In this article we would like to add our answers to the questions asked.
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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 in one batch to ArangoDB. This method is especially useful when the client has to send many HTTP requests with a small body/payload and the individual request results do not depend on each other.
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