arangosh, The ArangoDB shell, provides some options that may simplify an ArangoDB user’s life. Some of these options have been added in version 1.1.2, and some options have been around for a while but are probably still less known. It’s time to showcase them.

Pretty printing results

arangosh prints query results in a compact format by default. This format provides a lot of detail and reduces the amount of (vertical) scrolling. However, it is not very legible:

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.

Introduction

One of the design goals of AvocadoDB is:

Use AvocadoDB as an application server and fuse your application and database together for maximal throughput

In order to act as application server, AvocadoDB has a build in language, currently JavaScript. As mruby became publically available a few hours ago, I started to see if can be viable alternative. This blog post summarizes my finding.

Status Quo

AvocadoDB acts as HTTP server. Each request is parsed, routed, and passed to a small piece of..