AQL Functions Improvements

Waiting for a git pull to complete over an 8 KiB/s internet connection is boring. So I thought I’d rather use the idle time and quickly write about some performance improvements for certain AQL functions that were recently completed and that will become available with ArangoDB 2.6.

The improvements affect the following AQL functions:

• UNSET(): remove specified attributes from an object/document
• KEEP(): keep only specified attributes of an object/document
• MERGE(): merge the attributes of multiple objects/documents

This blog post shows a few example queries that will benefit from 50 to more than 60 % reductions in query execution times due to the changes done to these functions.

Please read the full blog post AQL Functions Improvements.