While the ArangoDB team is finishing the most wanted replication feature, there is another baby which needs our attention: Foxx.

Lucas, Jan, Frank and Michael have spread the word about Foxx and collected feedback from the community. Now it’s time for the next step: we will have our second FOXX hackathon on July 26th-28^th in Cologne – and you are invited to join the party :-).

A quick reminder: FOXX is a nice, little Javascript application framework on top of ArangoDB. Using Foxx, the frontend application speaks through Foxx with ArangoDB. No Node.Js/Rails/Symfony/whatever backend is..

UPDATE: ArangoDB 2 introduced sharding! 🙂

Original blog post:In ArangoDB’s google group there was recently an interesting discussion on what ArangoDB should offer in terms of replication and sharding. For the rest of you who does not follow the posts in the group, I have copied Frank Celler’s answer into this post:

Frank writes:

We will start with a master-slave, asynchronous replication for 1.4. This has at least the following advantages:

Test Driven Development

I have been one of the lucky attendants of scotland.js in Edinburgh recently.It was a really nice & informative conference, thanks to all people that made it possible.I did really like to see that TDD is reaching the front-end developers finally.A lot of useful tools for this have been presented by James Shore, Bernard Kobos and Sebastian Golasch.In ArangoDB, TDD is in action all day and I am looking forward to improving our front-end testing even further using these awesome tools.

Front-end Development meets NoSQL

Furthermore several talks focussing on front-end..

Last week Jan (core member of ArangoDB and the brain behind AQL and many other parts) was invited by “mobile.cologne” – a user group here in Cologne dealing with mobile development.

In this talk Jan gives a general overview on nosql databases and the different flavors. He explains how to query a nosql database and he evaluates how a nosql database can be used in a mobile app.

Dear API Implementors,

We have a beta version of the Windows port ready for testing. If you are feeling adventurous you can try the brand new beta port of ArangoDB 1.1.1 for windows. Please note, that currently this port only contains the server. The following pieces are still missing:

• no management front-end to start/stop the server or install it as Windows service; the server must be started using a batch script
• arangosh: instead you can use the ArangoDB shell using the admin front-end in the browser
• arangoimp (bulk-importer)

To test the windows port:

Jan was invited as a speaker to “Js.Everywhere” in Paris. He talked about using Javascript in a database, well, ArangoDB, to be precise, giving lots of examples on “actions” and related concepts in ArangoDB.

@moonbeamlabs and I hold a workshop about ArangoDB and the Ruby driver Ashikawa, which will hopefully become one of the first DataMapper 2 NoSQL drivers. Currently, we are using the aequitas and virtus components of DataMapper 2.

Slides of the workshop can be found on slideshare:

• Introduction to ArangoDB
• Introduction to Ashikawa

We are on the road again and are invited to give a talk at the “nosql matters”  in Barcelona. This is a one day conference in an amazing looking venue (UNESCO world heritage).