ArangoDB 3.7 – A Big Step Forward for Multi-Model

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When our founders realized that data models can be features, we at ArangoDB set ourselves the big goal of developing the most flexible database. With today’s GA release of ArangoDB 3.7, the project reached an important milestone on this journey.

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ArangoDB Assembles 10,000 GitHub Stargazers

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Today is a marvelous day for the ArangoDB project and the community behind it.

A couple of minutes ago, the 10,000th stargazer joined the project on GitHub, and we want to send a really big “Thank You!” to each and everyone of you for showing your support.

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A Deep And Fuzzy Dive Into Search

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Together with my team, I took a deep dive into the available fuzzy search approaches and algorithms for quite a while, in order to find a performant solution for the various projects ArangoSearch gets used for. 

Since the introduction of ArangoSearch back in 2018, many of our users have asked for fuzzy search support. We worked hard on getting this done, and the whole team is now excited to finally make fuzzy search available with the upcoming ArangoDB 3.7.

In the following, we will share our learnings and hope they are useful for you.

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Do Graph Databases Scale? Yes? No? Let’s see!

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Graph Databases are a great solution for many modern use cases: Fraud Detection, Knowledge Graphs, Asset Management, Recommendation Engines, IoT, Permission Management … you name it. 

All such projects benefit from a database technology capable of analyzing highly connected data points and their relations fast – Graph databases are designed for these tasks.

But the nature of graph data poses challenges when it comes to *buzzword alert* scalability. So why is this, and are graph databases capable of scaling? Let’s see…

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ArangoDB 3.7 BETA – Graph & Search Engine Upgrades

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After many weeks of designing, implementing, and testing we are happy to announce that all the exciting features are now in place for ArangoDB 3.7. We are proud to share a 3.7 Beta 1 preview release, which provides an opportunity for you to try out all upcoming features before the final release. On the ArangoDB technical preview page you’ll find the Beta 1 packages for the Community and Enterprise Editions, so you can install, play and test locally. 

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Best Practices for AQL Graph Queries

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Best Practices for AQL Graph Que

The ArangoDB Query Language(AQL) was designed to accomplish a few important goals, including:

  • Be a human-readable query language
  • Client independency 
  • Support complex query patterns
  • Support all ArangoDB data models with one language

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Open Source Petri Dish as Code: ArangoDB Innovation

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There are many things the global coronavirus pandemic crisis has shown us, but there are a few things that stand out. One of them is that the current vaccine and drug development process takes a lot of time. Some would even say too long for having the desired impact on containing the spread.

Source: Own representation based on IFPMA 2019
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You can now become an ArangoDB Certified Professional

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Ok, so it is official now… I mean the Official ArangoDB Certification Program 🙂

Starting today you can become an ArangoDB Certified Professional and show the world the multi-model skills you have earned. To get your personal certificate you just have to take the online quiz and answer 80% of the multiple-choice questions correctly. Read more

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Take Alpha 2 of the upcoming ArangoDB 3.7 for a spin!

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We are 11 weeks into the development of ArangoDB 3.7 and want to give you yet another opportunity to try out the upcoming features before the release. On our technical preview page, you’ll find the Alpha 2 packages for the Community and Enterprise Edition.

This Alpha 2 comes with pretty neat features and improvements and we hope to get your early feedback!

This is particularly helpful for us to adjust our development in terms of solving real-world problems for you and ease-of-use for the new capabilities like: Read more

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Opening the ArangoDB ArangoGraph API & Terraform Provider

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ArangoDB ArangoGraph, the cloud service of ArangoDB, has been available for a few months now and is growing quickly. The ArangoGraph team got a lot of requests to provide more ways to manage deployments, access policies and other aspects of ArangoGraph.

After adding support for Azure earlier this year, we’re now opening up the ArangoGraph API for all supported cloud providers like Google Cloud and AWS. Read more

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