ArangoDB Oasis, the cloud service of ArangoDB, has been available for a few months now and is growing quickly. The Oasis team got a lot of requests to provide more ways to manage deployments, access policies and other aspects of Oasis.
After adding support for Azure earlier this year, we’re now opening up the Oasis API for all supported cloud providers like Google Cloud and AWS. Read more
ArangoDB has supported two storage engines for a while: RocksDB and MMFiles. While ArangoDB started out with just the MMFiles storage engine in its early days, RocksDB became the default storage engine in the 3.4 release. Due to its drawbacks ArangoDB 3.6 deprecated the old MMFiles storage engine and with the upcoming 3.7 release we plan to fully remove support. This blog post will provide the background of why storage engines matter, why we chose to deprecate the MMFiles storage engine, and what you should be aware of when migrating from MMFiles to the RocksDB storage engine. Read more
This is a short tutorial to get started with ArangoDB using Node.js. In less than 10 minutes you can learn how to use ArangoDB with Node. This tutorial uses a free ArangoDB Sandbox running on Oasis that requires no sign up.
We will use the Repl live coding environment for the rest of the tutorial. This also requires no sign up and should already be ready to go. Read more
Please consider monitoring your productive ArangoDB installation as part of the best practices strategy. It is effortlessly done using established services Prometheus for data collection and Grafana for visualisation and alerting.
Kube-ArangoDB, ArangoDB’s Kubernetes Operator first released two years ago and as of today is operating many ArangoDB production clusters (including ArangoDB’s Managed Service Oasis). With many exciting features we felt kube-arango really deserves to be released as 1.0.
Today we are excited to invite everybody to take the first public preview of Azure on ArangoDB Oasis for a test ride. In case you haven’t joined Oasis yet, please find more details about our offering and a 14-day free trial on cloud.arangodb.com. Just choose Microsoft Azure as your cloud provider and choose from the many regions we already support.
You can share all feedback with us about regions you’d love to see added or other improvements on slack. Please use the #oasis channel on Community Slack or raise an issue via the “Request Help” button in the bottom right corner of Oasis.
Please note that this is a public preview and not meant to be run in production. Read more
We released ArangoDB version 3.6 in January this year, and now we are already 6 weeks into the development of its follow-up version, ArangoDB 3.7. We feel that this is a good point in time to share some of the new features of that upcoming release with you!
We try not to develop new features in a vacuum, but want to solve real-world problems for our end users. To get an idea of how useful the new features are, we would like to make alpha releases available to everyone as soon as possible. Our goal is get early user feedback during the development of ArangoDB, so we can validate our designs and implementations against the reality, and adjust them if it turns out to be necessary.
If you want to give some of the new features a test drive, you can download the 3.7 Alpha 1 from here – Community and Enterprise – for all supported platforms. Read more
Neo4j, Inc. is the well-known vendor of the Neo4j Graph Database, which solely supports the property graph model with graphs of previously limited size (single server, replicated).
In early 2020, Neo4j finally released its 4.0 version which promises “unlimited scalability” by the new feature Neo4j Fabric. While the marketing claim of “scalability” is true seen from a very simplistic perspective, developers and their teams should keep a few things in mind – most importantly: True horizontal scalability with graph data is not achieved by just allowing distributing data to different machines. Read more
