We are glad to announce that the second release candidate (RC2) of ArangoDB 3.1 is publicly available. What makes this release particularly special to us is that it also includes an official release candidate of our new Enterprise Edition with a few extra add-ons up its sleeve. The upcoming ArangoDB 3.1 will be a significant release taking effort from the solid base built with ArangoDB 3.0 which introduced our binary storage format VelocyPack, the ArangoDB Agency for a self-managing cluster architecture and the first persistent index based on Facebook’s RocksDB.

RC2 of ArangoDB 3.1 is..

After 6 months of development we are happy and excited to announce the fully production ready ArangoDB 3.0 today! Get ArangoDB 3.0 now!

We designed ArangoDB as a native multi-model DB from the first line of code. By providing three major NoSQL data models in one technology the ArangoDB team wants to fulfill its mission to simplify data work. With ArangoDB 3 we believe that our users will come more than one step closer to a dramatically simpler way to create their applications.

The current constraint isn’t hardware anymore. Computing power is spinned with a few clicks. The current constraint..

There is this German saying “If it takes long enough, it will be all right in the end.” However, since just “all right” isn’t our quality standard this first alpha of 3.0 took us a bit longer to finish up than planned. We´d like to invite you to give this fully tested alpha a serious spin, test the new functionalities and share your thoughts and feedback with us on Slack in our “feedback30” channel

Within this short release note you´ll find 1) a quick overview of the most important changes; 2) an instruction on how to get the new version and 3) how to get your (test) data from your 2.x..

The whole team at ArangoDB has been hacking “day-and-night” and the alpha version of the upcoming ArangoDB 3.0 release is available for testing! All our tests (290.000 lines of code) are green so it’s worth giving it a spin. We would really appreciate your feedback e.g. via our #feedback30 channel on Slack.

In the other news, our CTO Dr. Frank Celler attended the great Percona Live conference in Santa Clara and presented the latest developments of ArangoDB alongside many other database experts and big names.

ArangoDB Releases

The alpha version of the upcoming ArangoDB 3.0 release is..

Our next maintenance release – ArangoDB 2.8.7 – comes with several bug fixes and improved Foxx backwards compatibility. Here is a list of changes:

The ArangoDB 2.8.6 maintenance release comes with improved arangosh and some general bug fixes. You can download the latest version from our download page.

• arangosh can now execute JavaScript script files that contain a shebang in the first line of the file. This allows executing script files directly. Provided there is a script file /path/to/script.js with the shebang #!arangosh --javascript.execute:

  cat /path/to/script.js #!arangosh --javascript.execute print("hello from script.js");
  

  If the script file is made executable

  chmod a+x /path/to/script.js
  

  it can be invoked on the shell..

Most of us saw the fantastic movie 300 (I did it last night…again) or at least read the comics. 300 spartans barely wearing anything but achieving a lot. This little how-to will show you how to put ArangoDB into Spartan-Mode and thereby reduce memory-footprint and CPU usage.

Big thanks to Conrad from L.A. for his time and for giving us the impulse for this little how-to!

ArangoDB 2.8.2 maintenance release comes with several replication improvements and bug fixes. You can download the latest version from our download page.

What’s changed:

• the continuous replication applier will now prevent the master’s WAL logfiles from being removed if they are still needed by the applier on the slave. This should help slaves that suffered from masters garbage collection WAL logfiles which would have been needed by the slave later.

  The initial synchronization will block removal of still needed WAL logfiles on the master for 10 minutes initially, and will extend this period..

Explain Improvements

Explaining AQL queries becomes even easier in ArangoDB 2.8. While previous versions required writing a hard-to-memorize command like

require("org/arangodb/aql/explainer").explain(query);

to explain an AQL query from the ArangoShell, 2.8 reduces this task to a mere

db._explain(query);

Apart from that, explain in 2.8 is smarter when confronted with very lengthy query strings, and with queries that contain huge hard-coded string, array, or object values.

Long awaited and now we´ve finished it! New major release of ArangoDB 2.7 is ready for download. First of all a big thanks to our community for your great support! We´ve implemented a lot of your ideas! After your feedback to RC1 and RC2 we are happy to bring a new major release to the world. With ArangoDB 2.7 we increased our performance even further and improved query handling a lot.

What big improvements are in for you?

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