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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.

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