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ArangoDB AQL Optimization: Returning & Modifying in v2.4

January 16, 2015/

ArangoDB provides many options for finding and modifying data. Though there are several more specialized operation, data-modification AQL queries are the most general solution in ArangoDB. They allow to find documents using arbitrary filter criteria, and to modify or remove the documents once found.

Read in Jan’s blog how INSERT, UPDATE, REMOVE and REPLACE operations can now return modified documents and allow to find, modify and return documents from the same AQL query. Read on

Jan Steemann

Jan Steemann

After more than 30 years of playing around with 8 bit computers, assembler and scripting languages, Jan decided to move on to work in database engineering. Jan is now a senior C/C++ developer with the ArangoDB core team, being there from version 0.1. He is mostly working on performance optimization, storage engines and the querying functionality. He also wrote most of AQL (ArangoDB’s query language).
January 16, 2015,Jan Steemann

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  1. MM on January 20, 2015 at 7:57 am

    quick question. Are these operations (eg. update a value and return) atomic?

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