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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:

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Features and Improvements The following list shows in detail which features have been added or improved in ArangoDB 1.3. ArangoDB 1.3 also contains several bugfixes that are not listed here.

Changes to the Datafile Structure As the datafile structure has changed, please read the

upgrade manual carefully.

Rapid API Development with FOXX A preview of the forthcoming Foxx is contained in 1.3. Please note that this is not the final version, Foxx is still experimental. Foxx is a lightweight Javascript “micro framework” which allows..

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.

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.

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! 🙂