Creating Multi-Game Highscore Lists: ArangoDB Techniques
I just came across a question about how to create highscore lists or leaderboards in ArangoDB, and how they would work when compared to Redis sorted sets.
This blog post tries to give an answer on the topic and also detailed instructions and queries for setting up highscore lists with ArangoDB. The additional section “Extensions” explains slightly more advanced highscore list use cases like multi-game highscore lists, joining data and maintaining a “last updated” date.
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Create an ArangoDB cluster on Google Compute Engine with a single command
Last week we’ve released the first version of our new deployment tool for cloud computing platforms with Digital Ocean support. (Edit: now also available: Amazon Web Services) Today we show how to deploy an ArangoDB cluster on Google Compute Engine with a single command.
Google Compute Engine
To easy-deploy an ArangoDB cluster on Google Compute Engine you just need to install the official gcloud tool, download a single bash script and watch the tool take care of the rest for you.
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ArangoDB/deployment/publish/GoogleComputeEngine_ArangoDB_Cluster.sh
chmod 755 GoogleComputeEngine_ArangoDB_Cluster.sh
Google Compute Engine prerequisites
The script needs an available and configured Google Project.
- Create a project (GCE Projects).
- Remember your project-id, you’ll need that later for gcloud configuration.
- Enable Google Compute Engine API (more…)
Document Update with arangoimp: ArangoDB Data Management
Inspired by the feature request in Github issue #1298, we added update and replace support for ArangoDB’s import facilities.
This extends ArangoDB’s HTTP REST API for importing documents plus the arangoimp binary so they can not only insert new documents but also update existing ones.
Inserts and updates can also be mixed in a single import run. What exactly will happen is configurable by setting arangoimp’s new command-line option --on-duplicate.
By default, error will be reported if a document already exists. This behavior can be changed by setting --on-duplicate to a value of update, replace or ignore. Here is an example result of an import with duplicated keys:
> arangoimp --file data.json --collection users --on-duplicate update
created: 1
warnings/errors: 0
updated/replaced: 2
ignored: 0
So, if you want to aggregate data from several data files, you can try the new import command-line option --on-duplicate.
ArangoDB DigitalOcean Cluster: Scalable and Efficient Deployment
It is often difficult and time-consuming to setup a cluster environment for development or production purposes. For this reason, we decided to make an initial setup for you as easy as possible.
Today we’re introducing the first part of our new deployment tool for cloud computing platforms (Edit: now also available: Amazon Web Services and Google Compute Engine):
Part 1: Digital Ocean
We’ve released our first prototype, which deploys an ArangoDB Cluster on Digital Ocean. Just download a single bash script, export your Digital Ocean API Token and watch the tool take care of the rest for you.
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ArangoDB/deployment/publish/DigitalOcean_ArangoDB_Cluster.sh
chmod 755 DigitalOcean_ArangoDB_Cluster.sh
ArangoDB Release Candidate: Testing New Features & Stability
How often did you typed
var db = require("internal").db;
in the arangod console?
If you are familiar with the arangosh JavasScript shell than you probably use a custom .arangosh.rc startup script in your home-directory which defines your own extra variables and functions that you need often.
Now we’ve also added support for a file .arangod.rc that will be executed on server start. For example, you could put the following into the .arangod.rc file:
internal = require("internal");
fs = require("fs");
db = internal.db;
time = internal.time;
timed = function (cb) {
var s = time();
cb();
return time() - s;
};
print = internal.print;
You’ll never have to go through the history again to add your favourite function again. (Available in devel-branch, coming to the next releases soon).
ArangoDB Logstash Output: Efficient Data Integration
Inspired by a question on StackOverflow, I did some investigation about how to make Logstash send log events to ArangoDB.
There is no dedicated Logstash output plugin for ArangoDB on the Logstash plugins page, so I had already accepted to write one on my own.
Browsing the plugins page for inspiration, I found an HTTP output plugin for Logstash. It seems to be general enough that it can send the log event in JSON format to any HTTP-speaking backend.
ArangoDB’s API is JSON over HTTP, so it sounded like a perfect match. I briefly tried it out and it seemed to work fine.
Getting Started with Guacamole in Rails: ArangoDB Tutorial
Please note that parts of this article will not work out of the box with ArangoDB 3.0
Using ArangoDB as your main database is a good idea for various reasons. What I personally like about it is its query language AQL. I used relational databases in the past as my main database and writing statements in a language similar to SQL was a great way for me to get started with ArangoDB.
Having a HTTP based interface (like all the cool kids these days) we could build applications running solely on top of our database. That’s rather nice but then we would have to take care of all the gory details. So for our app we want at least an abstraction layer on top of the HTTP API. Better yet, something assisting us with modeling our domain logic.
Meet Guacamole: A object-document-mapper that takes care of all the busywork and allows you to focus on your domain. (more…)
ArangoDB Cookbook: Recipes for Database Optimization
It’s new – and just for you! With the new ArangoDB Cookbook we want to guide you thru various challenges that might arise in your daily business with NoSQL – and ArangoDB in particular.
You have a problem with or need an introduction to NoSQL data modeling / scaling ArangoDB / building Foxx apps / graph processing or something related to your favorite programming language? Then have a look if there’s a recipe match in the Cookbook!
Create your own recipes and help others in the ArangoDB community. We appreciate every participation that makes the cookbook a valuable source for ArangoDB users. Just write your problem description and solution in plain markdown and start a pull request on Github.
Need an example?
Lets assume you checked the foxx introduction on our website and now you want to build your own Foxx app, but you don’t know how to start.
Data Modeling: MongoDB vs ArangoDB | ArangoDB Blog
MongoDB is a document DB whereas ArangoDB is a multi-model DB supporting documents, graphs and key/values within a single database. When it comes to data modeling and data querying, they pursue somewhat different approaches.
In a Nutshell: In MongoDB, data modeling is “aggregate-oriented”, avoiding relations and joins. On the other side, everybody has probably used relational databases which organize the data in tables with relations and try to avoid as much redundancy as possible. Both approaches have their pros and cons. ArangoDB is somewhat in-between: You can both model and query your data in a “relational way” but also in an “aggregate-oriented way”, depending on your use case. ArangoDB offers joins, nesting of sub-documents and multi-collection graphs. (more…)
New ArangoDB Documentation Released: Explore Now!
Dear ArangoDB users, we are proud to announce our new manual for ArangoDB. It is a complete overhaul, with huge changes and improvements, which became necessary because the old manual grew so fast and was edited by so many people, that it became inconsistent. We would appreciate if you could give us feedback. Either by writing comments in the google groups or by opening issues in the GitHub repository.
You can find our new manual here.
Changes highlights:
- Everything in one place: user manual, developers manual and adminstrators manual
- Completely new, consistent and themable design
- Improved navigation through sidebar
- Powerful search function
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