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..

We are proud to announce the latest release of ArangoDB with lot’s of improvements and many new features. ArangoDB 2.6 is available for download for many different operating systems. In the new release the focus is on performance improvements. For instance sorting on a string attribute is up to 3 times faster. There are also improvements in the shortest-path implementation and other graph related AQL queries.

Look at some of our previous blogposts like: Reusable Foxx Apps with Configurations, Document your Foxx Apps with Swagger 2 or the Improved System User Authentication to learn more about..

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.

ArangoDB related (Drivers & more)

• (Python) py-arango 1.4.0: Params added to transactions
• (Python) pyArango: Added arango privates to validation
• (JS) arangojs 3.8.1: Added support for HTTPS
• (GO) aranGO 0.6

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.

ArangoDB related (Drivers & more)

This week we’ve released the third alpha for ArangoDB 2.6. Using this alpha3 release we’ve done our first benchmark article. Claudius wrote a blog post: Native multi-model can compete with pure document and graph databases – which shows that ArangoDB is really not that bad. We would love to hear your feedback.

ArangoDB Releases

The third alpha release of ArangoDB 2.6 is available for download. We have many new features like the following:

Last week we’ve released ArangoDB 2.6 alpha! We would be happy if you could test the new version and give us some feedback. For all the great developers who make drivers and tools for ArangoDB we made a list of important changes in the API. With ArangoDB 2.6 you also can generate your API documentation with Swagger 2. Stay tuned, follow @arangodb for more news and have fun with the new release.

ArangoDB Releases

The first alpha release of ArangoDB 2.6 is available for download. We have many new features like the following:

In the last days we prepared everything for the first technical preview of ArangoDB 2.6, testing new and improved functionality and adding some small last minute features like the AQL explain command in the Web UI. We are proud of the new release and can’t wait to give it in your hands. Stay tuned, follow @arangodb to get the news first

Meanwhile last week we published a 2.5.4 maintenance release and provide a short glimpse on added features like Foxx dependencies for more composable Foxx Apps and Improved System User Authentication.

This version is deprecated. Download the new version of ArangoDB

ArangoDB 2.4.5 is ready to download. The latest release of the 2.4 branch comes with some minor bugfixes and a new feature:

Tracking of AQL queries

We have added current and slow query tracking and also killing of long running AQL queries.

This change enables retrieving the list of currently running AQL queries inside the selected database. AQL queries with an execution time beyond a certain threshold can be moved to a slow query facility and retrieved from there:

This version is deprecated. Download the new version of ArangoDB

This version is deprecated. Download the new version of ArangoDB