This article is about setting up active failover for ArangoDB-PHP, the PHP client driver for ArangoDB. It requires ArangoDB-PHP 3.3.2 or higher, and an ArangoDB server version of 3.3.4 or higher.

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Version 6.0.0 of the JavaScript driver arangojs is now available (Find it on GitHub).

This is a major release that introduces a small number of breaking changes so make sure to check out the arangojs changelog before upgrading. The most significant additions in this release are support for load balancing and automated failover as well as improved browser and TypeScript support.

Currently we are diving deeper into the Apache Spark world. We started with an implementation of a Spark-Connector written in Scala. The connector supports loading of data from ArangoDB into Spark and vice-versa. Today we release a first prototype with an aim of including our community into the development process early to build a product that fits your needs. Your feedback is more than welcome!

The upcoming 3.1 release comes with a binary protocol – VelocyStream – to transport VelocyPack (internal storage format of ArangoDB introduced with the 3.0 release) data between ArangoDB and client applications. VelocyPack stores a superset of JSON, is more compact and has a fast attribute lookup. On the other hand, VelocyStream allows to send VelocyPack in an optimized form over the network. We think it would be the right time to update our official Java Driver to modernize it and to let it be the first to fully support VelocyStream.

The first alpha of the official JavaScript driver arangojs‘ upcoming major release is now available on npm.

Version 4 streamlines the driver’s API by removing unnecessary server roundtrips to obtain references to collections and graphs that already exist:

Before:

var db = require('arangojs')(); db.collection('users') .then(function(collection) { return collection.import(allTheUsers) }) .then(function() { return db.collection('blogs') }) .then(function(collection) { return collection.import(allTheBlogs); }) .then(function() { return db.collection('articles') }) .then(function(collection) {..

Great news for driver maintainers that want access to the latest developments in ArangoDB. Many of you have asked us if we can provide a nightly build of our ArangoDB database to improve CI test automation using Travis-CI. The Travis builds for ArangoDB 2.6, 2.7 and devel will be generated and published shortly after midnight (GMT).

ArangoJS, the official ArangoDB JavaScript client, has been updated to version 3.7.0. The new release features significant performance improvements in Node.js and io.js. The dependency on the third-party request module has been replaced with a thin wrapper around node’s own http module, bringing a 3-4x performance improvement for consecutive requests by maintaining a connection pool.