FOSDEM is an absolutely open and free conference in Brussels, Belgium. The conference offers an impressive amount of developer rooms discussing a broad range of technical topics, including NoSQL and graphs.

After a funny and productive ArangoDB hackathon weekend Frank and I arrived at FOSDEM on Sunday noon. We were looking forward to the talks in the graph devroom, but unfortunately for us it was not possible to enter the room (it was overfull, indicating a great quality of talks).At the next speakers change Frank and I managed to slip into the room and could enjoy two inspiring talks by..

Using ArangoDB as your graph database?

you now have the opportunity to visualize your data graphically, using the “Graphs” tab in the admin interface.In this post i will explain you how to do this:

Step 1) Configure the InterfaceAt first you have to configure the interface to display exactly the data you desire.For the dataset you have two options:

1. Select one vertex and one edge collection directly
2. Select the graph by name created using the graphs api
3. Manage your graphs

Then the interface offers you several advanced..

In the latest version of ArangoDB (1.4) we have introduced a new tab in the Admin Interface: Graphs.

You can use this tab to view and modify your graphs stored in ArangoDB. In this screencast you will get a short introduction on how to use the new system.

UNQL started with quite some hype last year. However, after some burst of activity the project came to a hold. So it seems, that – at least as a project – UNQL has been a failure. IMHO one of the major issues with the current UNQL is, that it tries to cover everything in NoSQL, from key-value stores to document-stores to graph-database. Basically you end up with greatest common divisor – namely key-value access. But with graph structures and also document-structures you really want to supports joins,..