The whole team at ArangoDB has been hacking “day-and-night” and the alpha version of the upcoming ArangoDB 3.0 release is available for testing! All our tests (290.000 lines of code) are green so it’s worth giving it a spin. We would really appreciate your feedback e.g. via our #feedback30 channel on Slack.

In the other news, our CTO Dr. Frank Celler attended the great Percona Live conference in Santa Clara and presented the latest developments of ArangoDB alongside many other database experts and big names. Read more

Our upcoming release ArangoDB 2.8 is currently available as BETA , adding stunning new features to AQL and allowing to make use of array indexing. In our beta announcement we list all the details and explain how to use graph traversals in pure AQL. Please give it a try and help us finish the release sooner. Read more

In just a few days we will publish our release candidate of ArangoDB 2.7. As secure performance and ease of use are our key goals, we worked hard on some nice improvements like

• Index Buckets (Reducing loading time for collections and enable faster resizing)
• Throughput Enhancements (Real world tests showed 25-75% increase of throughput compared to 2.6)
• Enhancements for AQL like “return distinct”, “template query strings” or the brand new “AQL query result cache” Read more

In the last two weeks we’ve fixed some issues, upgraded the bundled V8 version in ArangoDB and released the maintenance release 2.6.5 and 2.6.7 . Besides that we continued our efforts to enhance our indexing capabilities and startet further cluster tests.

ArangoDB Release

The next maintenance release for ArangoDB 2.6 is available for download. You can find a full list of changes in our change-log (2.6.7) and change-log (2.6.5).

Download ArangoDB 2.6.7

ArangoDB related (Drivers & more)

• (Elasticsearch) elasticsearch-river-arangodb: River Plugin for ElasticSearch, now builds against ES 1.7 (Patrick Huber)
• (PHP) zend-arangodb-auth (early stage): provides auth and acl for zend framework (Cyberrebell)
• (Python) python-arango (2.0.0): API call methods for user management and monitoring (Joohwan Oh)
• (vert.x) vertx-arango-client (early stage): ArangoDB client library built with vert.x. (Craig G)

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In the past two weeks we’ve celebrated some lock-hunting days, trying to eliminate read/write locks to enhance throughput . Furthermore, we did some large cluster tests on GCE, which will be continued over the next days. A maintenance release of ArangoDB 2.6, released earlier this week, comes with a new V8 engine.

ArangoDB Releases

Two maintenance releases are available. ArangoDB 2.5.7 and ArangoDB 2.6.4 use an upgraded V8 engine (4.1.0.27).

Download ArangoDB 2.6.4

Articles and Presentations

• Achtung, Baby! 15 Early-Stage German Startups That Should Be On Your Radar (CB Insights)
• Lockfree protection of data structures that are frequently read (Max Neunhoeffer)
• Throughput Enhancements – a short Comparison with ArangoDB 2.6 (Jan Steemann)
• Running V8 isolates in a multi-threaded ArangoDB database (Jan Steemann)

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Maybe you’ve noticed that there was no ArangoDB newsletter last week. So here’s the news of the last two weeks and the announcement that during the summer our NL will be biweekly. 🙂

In the meantime we’ve improved the performance of the shortest path implementation significantly and rerun the Multi-Model performance tests. The article Data modeling with multi-model databases – a use case for multi-model databases – was a huge success on O’Reilly Radar last week, it had the most page views of all Radar articles. It’s worth to read.

Finally, Mesosphere launched it’s SDK and developer program and we are proud to be one of the first partners that integrate into DCOS. Stay tuned, there will be more to come.

Keep an eye on our blog or follow us on Twitter for news about ArangoDB.

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This week we published a 2.6.1 maintenance release. A few weeks ago we published a performance comparison. Since it has raised a lost of interest and the discussions around it have led to improvements in all products we’ve updated the benchmark comparison .
In addition we’ve also released a performance comparison between ArangoDB 2.5 and 2.6.
Stay tuned and follow @arangodb for more news.

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This week we’ve finally released ArangoDB 2.6! Try it out and we would love to see some feedback. Look at our list of important changes in the API for 2.6 if you are one of ArangoDB’s developers.
Alan talked about Getting Started with Foxx in ArangoDB 2.6 in our webinar. If you didn’t had the chance to be there, you can watch it on our youtube channel.
Stay tuned and follow @arangodb for more news.

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