The most recent versions of ArangoDB offer more detailed control over what values will be auto-generated for the _key and _id attributes of documents. They also allow using predictable auto-increment sequences.

ArangoDB 1.1 and before always auto-generated the values for the _id attribute of documents, and since ArangoDB 1.2 there was the possibility to provide user-defined document keys in the _key attribute.

In my blog post about npm packages, I tried to use underscore for ArangoDB. I found that the easiest way to archive this, is using the nodes package manager NPM. Node packages and modules follow the Common.JS specification, so they can be used by ArangoDB.

We are proud to announce the release of ArangoDB 1.2.0. You can find an overview of the new features in these blog posts:

• New Features in ArangoDB 1.2
• Simplifications in ArangoDB 1.2
• API changes in ArangoDB 1.2 If you are upgrading your database from 1.1, please carefully read
• Upgrading to ArangoDB 1.2 The source code is available from the 1.2 branch on

github, the binary packages from our download page. The new version has also been submitted to homebrew and Apple’s AppStore.

The upcoming 1.2 version of ArangoDB will provide several improvements and fixes.Apart from the additional features the new version provides, the following changes might also be very interesting for users and driver maintainers:

We have just released beta2 of ArangoDB 1.2. It is available for download here.For everyone interested in trying the new version, here’s a quick overview of its major new features & changes:

Apart from introducing several new features, the upcoming 1.2 version of ArangoDB will change a few of the existing REST API return values.The API changes were necessary to make the ArangoDB’s APIs easier to use, more robust and portable.

We hope that the following list provides 3rd party client & driver maintainers with enough information to update drivers to work with ArangoDB 1.2.

Note: The following article was originally written as an answer in ArangoDB google group. It may help other people to understand the scope of ArangoDB and/or AQL, so we posted it here as well.

AQL, the query language, provides access to the data which is stored inside collections. The collections contain documents, identified by unique keys.

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:

ArangoDB version 1.1 was released today. Builds for major distributions can be found on the downloads page.The new version offers several improvements, namely:

Yesterday version 1.0 of the PHP driver for ArangoDB was released. It contains basic support for edges as well as fixes and tests. Check out the Changelog for further details. Many thanks go to Frank Mayer for his contribution! 🙂