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Hello! I’m Cris Miranda, the community manager at ArangoDB, and I make sure ArangoDB has a vibrant, wholesome, and ever-growing community of amazing people. I want to share some tips and advice based on valuable lessons we’ve learned from our first-ever virtual developers’ conference. 

In this short blog post, you’ll learn about how to avoid the common pitfall of ‘feature creep’ as well as gain tips on navigating virtual events platforms. I also teach you how you and your team can move together in synchronicity while keeping your goals as your guiding..

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We’ve been spending quite a bit of time preparing something really exciting for our community this year: we’re thrilled to announce ArangoDB’s first-ever virtual developer conference taking place October 18th through the 22nd, 2021.

ArangoDB Dev Days will be a five-day event, packed with more than 23 hours of content, a large roster of all-star speakers, and transmitted via Zoom to audiences all over the globe. And the best part? All of it is free.

Our team is hard at work finalizing their sessions for the conference. Each day will feature 4 hours+ of..

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When our founders realized that data models can be features, we at ArangoDB set ourselves the big goal of developing the most flexible database. With today’s GA release of ArangoDB 3.7, the project reached an important milestone on this journey.

Watch the the ArangoDB 3.7 Release Webinar.

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Today is a marvelous day for the ArangoDB project and the community behind it.

A couple of minutes ago, the 10,000th stargazer joined the project on GitHub, and we want to send a really big “Thank You!” to each and everyone of you for showing your support.

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Graph Databases are a great solution for many modern use cases: Fraud Detection, Knowledge Graphs, Asset Management, Recommendation Engines, IoT, Permission Management … you name it. 

All such projects benefit from a database technology capable of analyzing highly connected data points and their relations fast – Graph databases are designed for these tasks.

But the nature of graph data poses challenges when it comes to *buzzword alert* scalability. So why is this, and are graph databases capable of scaling? Let’s see…

In the following, we will define what..

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There are many things the global coronavirus pandemic crisis has shown us, but there are a few things that stand out. One of them is that the current vaccine and drug development process takes a lot of time. Some would even say too long for having the desired impact on containing the spread.

There are for sure elements in the vaccine development process shown above that can’t be done much faster in order to develop a safe and effective vaccine. But for other steps, modern technology can contribute..

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Ok, so it is official now… I mean the Official ArangoDB Certification Program 🙂

Starting today you can become an ArangoDB Certified Professional and show the world the multi-model skills you have earned. To get your personal certificate you just have to take the online quiz and answer 80% of the multiple-choice questions correctly.

The online test will cover various topics like:

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Neo4j, Inc. is the well-known vendor of the Neo4j Graph Database, which solely supports the property graph model with graphs of previously limited size (single server, replicated).

In early 2020, Neo4j finally released its 4.0 version which promises “unlimited scalability” by the new feature Neo4j Fabric. While the marketing claim of “scalability” is true seen from a very simplistic perspective, developers and their teams should keep a few things in mind – most importantly: True horizontal scalability with graph data is not achieved by just allowing..

After two years of planning, preparation and a few lines of code, you can now enjoy an even more comfortable developers’ life with ArangoDB.

We are closing in on the general availability of ArangoDB 3.5. With this (hopefully) last release candidate for the new version, we want to highlight a pretty neat new feature, which many of you requested – a much simpler way to use ACID transactions without the need to write any Javascript code.

Get the latest Releaseof ArangoDB 3.5: Community and Enterprise.

Before we dive in, we want to send another big THANK YOU to the many Avocaderas and Avocaderos who took the release candidates for a spin and shared their findings with us. Immensely helpful for the whole team to learn where we were..