ArangoDB Weekly 33: V8 Upgrade and ArangoDB 2.6.7 Highlights
In the last two weeks we’ve fixed some issues, upgraded the bundled V8 version in ArangoDB and released the maintenance release 2.6.5 and 2.6.7 . Besides that we continued our efforts to enhance our indexing capabilities and startet further cluster tests.
ArangoDB Release
The next maintenance release for ArangoDB 2.6 is available for download. You can find a full list of changes in our change-log (2.6.7) and change-log (2.6.5).
ArangoDB related (Drivers & more)
- (Elasticsearch) elasticsearch-river-arangodb: River Plugin for ElasticSearch, now builds against ES 1.7 (Patrick Huber)
- (PHP) zend-arangodb-auth (early stage): provides auth and acl for zend framework (Cyberrebell)
- (Python) python-arango (2.0.0): API call methods for user management and monitoring (Joohwan Oh)
- (vert.x) vertx-arango-client (early stage): ArangoDB client library built with vert.x. (Craig G)
ArangoDB Weekly 32: Updates, Tips, and Community Highlights
In the past two weeks we’ve celebrated some lock-hunting days, trying to eliminate read/write locks to enhance throughput . Furthermore, we did some large cluster tests on GCE, which will be continued over the next days. A maintenance release of ArangoDB 2.6, released earlier this week, comes with a new V8 engine.
ArangoDB Releases
Two maintenance releases are available. ArangoDB 2.5.7 and ArangoDB 2.6.4 use an upgraded V8 engine (4.1.0.27).
Articles and Presentations
- Achtung, Baby! 15 Early-Stage German Startups That Should Be On Your Radar (CB Insights)
- Lockfree protection of data structures that are frequently read (Max Neunhoeffer)
- Throughput Enhancements – a short Comparison with ArangoDB 2.6 (Jan Steemann)
- Running V8 isolates in a multi-threaded ArangoDB database (Jan Steemann)
Arango Weekly 31: Official Docker Repo & New Release 2.6.3
ArangoDB is now an Official Repo in the Docker Hub, one of just four additions in the last 2 months. Please try and tell your friends! ArangoDB 2.6 is known as a performance release and we’ve continued to improve the core by killing locks and optimizing code. Looks like we can show some impressive performance boosts soon. Furthermore, Mike Williamson wrote a blog post on modeling data with ArangoDB last week, that is worth to read.
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Arango Weekly 30: New Performance Results & O’Reilly Article
Maybe you’ve noticed that there was no ArangoDB newsletter last week. So here’s the news of the last two weeks and the announcement that during the summer our NL will be biweekly. 🙂
In the meantime we’ve improved the performance of the shortest path implementation significantly and rerun the Multi-Model performance tests. The article Data modeling with multi-model databases – a use case for multi-model databases – was a huge success on O’Reilly Radar last week, it had the most page views of all Radar articles. It’s worth to read.
Finally, Mesosphere launched it’s SDK and developer program and we are proud to be one of the first partners that integrate into DCOS. Stay tuned, there will be more to come.
Keep an eye on our blog or follow us on Twitter for news about ArangoDB.
Arango Weekly 29: New Release 2.6.1 & Updated Benchmark
This week we published a 2.6.1 maintenance release. A few weeks ago we published a performance comparison. Since it has raised a lost of interest and the discussions around it have led to improvements in all products we’ve updated the benchmark comparison .
In addition we’ve also released a performance comparison between ArangoDB 2.5 and 2.6.
Stay tuned and follow @arangodb for more news.
Arango Weekly 28: New Release 2.6 & Latest Updates
This week we’ve finally released ArangoDB 2.6! Try it out and we would love to see some feedback. Look at our list of important changes in the API for 2.6 if you are one of ArangoDB’s developers.
Alan talked about Getting Started with Foxx in ArangoDB 2.6 in our webinar. If you didn’t had the chance to be there, you can watch it on our youtube channel.
Stay tuned and follow @arangodb for more news.
Meet Patrick: ArangoDB User & Community Contributor
In April 2015, Thomas Pfeiffer, a user experience researcher and active open-source contributor, did an interview with one very active member of the ArangoDB community – J Patrick Davenport from Palatka, FL, USA. The aim was to get an idea about the open-source project ArangoDB as a whole and the development process so far – from the perspective of a developer. This interview first appeared in Thomas Pfeiffer sessellift blog on April 27th.
Thomas: Hi Patrick, to start off, could you tell me a little about yourself (your background, the job in which you’re using ArangoDB, …)?
Patrick: About me: I’m a Solutions Architect, working for my own company, DeusDat Solutions. I’ve been working over 8 years as a software Bob Villa (This Old House, American Reference). My clients call me in to renovate code bases that are near collapse. I’ve improved multiple Fortune 500 company’s core business applications. Recently I designed half to the Medicare Fraud Detection System for the US Government. That was based on Hadoop.
ArangoDB Weekly 27: Beta Release 2.6 & AQL Preview for 2.7
This week we’ve released ArangoDB 2.6 beta! We would love to see you testing the beta and give us some feedback. If you are one of the great developers who made the drivers for ArangoDB, you should look at our list of important changes in the API for 2.6.
Let’s a have glimpse into the future and look at AQL improvements for 2.7. Stay tuned and follow @arangodb for more news.
Arango Weekly 26: OrientDB Benchmark & Latest Updates
Last week we’ve published a benchmark post: Native multi-model can compete with pure document and graph databases. An article that attracted some great attention on HN / social media. Many asked us to add the multi-model database OrientDB to the benchmark post. We did and published Performance comparison between ArangoDB, MongoDB, Neo4j and OrientDB today.
We would appreciate and welcome your feedback.
Working with ArangoDB: Insights from Francis at Boostport
As an open-source project we are always happy when we learn about new projects that use ArangoDB and we are thankful for any feedback; on how working with ArangoDB and/or interacting with the team – has helped your projects to develop. If you have a story you want to share, please get in touch.
Recently we have received a nice feedback from Francis (Boostport) that reached us with the launch of his new product. Parts of Boostport are realized using Foxx-JavaScript extensions on ArangoDB:
“I really enjoyed working on ArangoDB. It’s very stable, well-documented and the API docs are very clear, as I use the REST api. Support is also top-notch. Bugs were often fixed hours or days after discovery and in one case, after I submitted an enhancement request for custom AQL functions, Jan implemented them over the next few days.
For me, the most important feature is being able to build custom AQL functions in javascript. This allowed me to easily perform analytics on social data, generate the appropriate views and send them back to the client for consumption. Finally, I also really liked how minimal configuration is needed to get it up and running. As a plus, I like how you can set up replication using the REST interface. :)”
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