It’s not that long ago since we released ArangoDB 3.0 in which we introduced our binary storage format VelocyPack, the ArangoDB Agency for a self-managing cluster and the first persistent index by implementing Facebooks RocksDB. With all that we laid the foundation for a solid ground to scale with all three data-models.

With today’s ArangoDB 3.1 release we take things a few steps further and make cluster usage of ArangoDB more performant and convenient. Get ArangoDB 3.1.

In addition to our community version of ArangoDB 3.1 we are excited to release our first Enterprise Edition today. The Enterprise Editions of ArangoDB focuses on enterprise-scale problems and provides useful features to meet the requirements of enterprise customers. You can download a free evaluation-only version here: Download Enterprise Edition. ArangoDB Enterprise Edition also comes with the Enterprise subscription, including comprehensive support SLA.

This first ArangoDB Enterprise Edition includes three major features:

• SmartGraphs: Scale with graphs to a cluster and stay performant...

We are glad to announce that the second release candidate (RC2) of ArangoDB 3.1 is publicly available. What makes this release particularly special to us is that it also includes an official release candidate of our new Enterprise Edition with a few extra add-ons up its sleeve. The upcoming ArangoDB 3.1 will be a significant release taking effort from the solid base built with ArangoDB 3.0 which introduced our binary storage format VelocyPack, the ArangoDB Agency for a self-managing cluster architecture and the first persistent index based on Facebook’s RocksDB.

RC2 of ArangoDB 3.1 is..

After 6 months of development we are happy and excited to announce the fully production ready ArangoDB 3.0 today! Get ArangoDB 3.0 now!

We designed ArangoDB as a native multi-model DB from the first line of code. By providing three major NoSQL data models in one technology the ArangoDB team wants to fulfill its mission to simplify data work. With ArangoDB 3 we believe that our users will come more than one step closer to a dramatically simpler way to create their applications.

The current constraint isn’t hardware anymore. Computing power is spinned with a few clicks. The current constraint..

The 3.0 release of ArangoDB will introduce a completely overhauled cluster and marks a major milestone on its road to “zero-maintenance” where you can keep focus on your product instead of your datacenter.

Synchronous replication

Earlier releases of ArangoDB already featured asynchronous replication. This was already a great method to do backups and allowed for failover in case of a disaster. However that was mostly a manual job and furthermore – due to its asynchronous nature – data loss could happen.

With the release of ArangoDB 3.0 the cluster will feature synchronous replication. When..

There is this German saying “If it takes long enough, it will be all right in the end.” However, since just “all right” isn’t our quality standard this first alpha of 3.0 took us a bit longer to finish up than planned. We´d like to invite you to give this fully tested alpha a serious spin, test the new functionalities and share your thoughts and feedback with us on Slack in our “feedback30” channel

Within this short release note you´ll find 1) a quick overview of the most important changes; 2) an instruction on how to get the new version and 3) how to get your (test) data from your 2.x..

Our next maintenance release – ArangoDB 2.8.7 – comes with several bug fixes and improved Foxx backwards compatibility. Here is a list of changes:

The ArangoDB 2.8.6 maintenance release comes with improved arangosh and some general bug fixes. You can download the latest version from our download page.

• arangosh can now execute JavaScript script files that contain a shebang in the first line of the file. This allows executing script files directly. Provided there is a script file /path/to/script.js with the shebang #!arangosh --javascript.execute:

  cat /path/to/script.js #!arangosh --javascript.execute print("hello from script.js");
  

  If the script file is made executable

  chmod a+x /path/to/script.js
  

  it can be invoked on the shell..

ArangoDB 2.8.2 maintenance release comes with several replication improvements and bug fixes. You can download the latest version from our download page.

What’s changed:

• the continuous replication applier will now prevent the master’s WAL logfiles from being removed if they are still needed by the applier on the slave. This should help slaves that suffered from masters garbage collection WAL logfiles which would have been needed by the slave later.

  The initial synchronization will block removal of still needed WAL logfiles on the master for 10 minutes initially, and will extend this period..

Explain Improvements

Explaining AQL queries becomes even easier in ArangoDB 2.8. While previous versions required writing a hard-to-memorize command like

require("org/arangodb/aql/explainer").explain(query);

to explain an AQL query from the ArangoShell, 2.8 reduces this task to a mere

db._explain(query);

Apart from that, explain in 2.8 is smarter when confronted with very lengthy query strings, and with queries that contain huge hard-coded string, array, or object values.