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A maintenance release for ArangoDB 2.4.2 is available for download or via your favourite package manager.

v2.4.2 (2015-01-30)

• added custom visitor functionality for AQL traversals

This allows more complex result processing in traversals triggered by AQL. A few examples are shown in this article.

• improved number of results estimated for nodes of type EnumerateListNode and SubqueryNode in AQL explain output

This version is deprecated. Download the new version of ArangoDB

This version is deprecated. Download the new version of ArangoDB

This version is deprecated. Download the new version of ArangoDB

We are proud to announce the release of Version 2.4 of our multi-model database ArangoDB. It’s ready for download now and available for all major platforms.

This release is a major step forward. Use Foxx to create your favorite microservice with a few clicks, dockerize it and access it via a REST/Web API from everywhere. – Dr. Frank Celler (CTO)

You can now use EcmaScript 6 features like iterators, symbols, maps and sets by default and enable even more ES6 features with ArangoDB start options. The V8 engine upgrade in..

The ArangoDB team is back from holidays, wishing you and your families a happy New Year 2015. This year will become a good one for multi-model databases – like ArangoDB – according to analysts, quoted in the NoSQL trends 2015 article from Dataversity. This newsletter covers the last 3 weeks, including the beta of ArangoDB 2.4, build on christmas eve.

ArangoDB Releases

We released the ArangoDB 2.4 beta. You can find a full list of changes in our change-log. Here are some of the changes:

ArangoDB Foxx allows defining job queues that let you perform slow or expensive actions asynchronously.

These queues can be used to send emails, call external APIs or perform other actions that you do not want to perform directly or want to retry on failure. Let’s say you want to send out an email every time you check off an item in your Foxx todo app and you want to use an external transactional email service to do that. Go to

The new Javascript driver no longer imposes any promises implementation. It follows the standard callback pattern with a callback using err and res.

I wanted to give the new driver a try. A github crawler seemed like a good side-project, especially because the node-github driver follows the same conventions as the Javascript driver.

There are a lot of promise libraries out there. The most popular one – according to NPM – was promises. It should be possible to use any implementation. Therefore I used this one.

The following source code can be found on github.

Please note that parts of this article will not work out of the box with ArangoDB 3.0

Using ArangoDB as your main database is a good idea for various reasons. What I personally like about it is its query language AQL. I used relational databases in the past as my main database and writing statements in a language similar to SQL was a great way for me to get started with ArangoDB.

Having a HTTP based interface (like all the cool kids these days) we could build applications running solely on top of our database. That’s rather nice but then we would have to take care of all the gory details. So..

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ArangoDB Release

We released ArangoDB 2.3.2 with some bug fixes. You can find a full list of changes in our change-log. Here is a short extract:

• added AQL optimizer rule for removing INTO from a COLLECT statement if not needed
• fixed missing makeDirectory when fetching a Foxx application from a zip file
• fixed issue #1173: AQL Editor “Save current query” resets user password

ArangoDB related (Drivers & more)

• ArangoPy 0.5.3 (Python): Sascha Häusler has updated the Python driver so it is compatible with 2.3
• ansible-arangodb 1.0.0: Patrick Huber made an install helper, in this case..