White Paper Resilience in ArangoDB 3

For Version 3.0 of ArangoDB we had the following aims for the distributed mode, which greatly improves on previous releases:

• configurable resilience
• easy deployment
• convenient administration
• a self-healing design

The degree of resilience should be configurable, because it will always be a tradeoff between performance and fault tolerance. For example, a higher replication factor will in general mean a higher latency of write operations and more memory consumption, but will deliver a higher degree of resilience.