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Feed: Blog – ArangoDB. Author: Claudius Weinberger. We are super excited to share the great news of two highly-experienced minds joining team ArangoDB to shape and grow the multi-model vision with us. Matt Ekstrom is an accomplished enterprise sales leader and joins ArangoDB as Chief Revenue Officer. He brings over 20 years of sales and leadership experience with him and will lead our global sales efforts from San Francisco. Our new Head of Engineering & Machine Learning is Jörg Schad who brings nearly a decade of experience of researching, designing and developing distributed systems and machine learning pipelines to our ... Read More

Feed: Blog – ArangoDB. Author: Jan Stücke. We are closing in on the general availability of ArangoDB 3.5. With this (hopefully) last release candidate for the new version, we want to highlight a pretty neat new feature, which many of you requested – a much simpler way to use ACID transactions without the need to write any Javascript code. Get the latest Release Candidate of ArangoDB 3.5: RC7 Community and RC7 Enterprise. Before we dive in, we want to send another big THANK YOU to the many Avocaderas and Avocaderos who took the release candidates for a spin and shared ... Read More

Feed: Blog – ArangoDB. Author: Jan Stücke. Step-by-step we are getting closer and closer to the official release of ArangoDB 3.5. First of all, we want to send a biiiiig “Thank You!” to all the testers so far and all your feedback! Super helpful for us! This Release Candidate post is dedicated to the four new features of ArangoSearch which extend the capabilities and provide pretty huge performance improvements, especially for queries including search & sorting. Probably the most interesting new thing you can do (and the most requested) is to configure analyzers and provide custom stopword-lists among other configuration ... Read More

Feed: Blog – ArangoDB. Author: Jan Stücke. This has been a really momentous year so far for us, filled with a lot of accomplishments we’re pretty excited about. We recently added another one to the books: being named to Database Trends and Applications magazine’s “DBTA 100: The Companies That Matter Most in Data” list. What does this mean? Well for us, it’s just a bit more validation that we’ve been able to help developers around the world reduce complexity and headaches that typically accompany leveraging multiple data models within their applications. We truly believe that developers and their teams are ... Read More

Feed: Blog – ArangoDB. Author: Jan Stücke. Coding is finished. Tests are green. Today, we can share the second release candidate for ArangoDB 3.5. Get RC2 Community Edition or RC2 Enterprise Edition. With this release candidate we want to highlight the next two features of the upcoming release. Data Masking and Time-To-Live indices (TTL) can come in very handy for developers when it comes to compliance with data privacy regulations like GDPR or the upcoming Consumer Privacy Act of California. As always: Release candidates are for testing purposes only and should not be used for production! Before upgrading, please make ... Read More

Feed: Blog – ArangoDB. Author: Jan Stücke. After a lot of planning, coding and testing we can finally share the first Release Candidate of ArangoDB 3.5 with you today. You can get it on our Technical Preview Download page: Tech Preview Community & Tech Preview Enterprise. With this RC, we want to highlight two new features for all graph database enthusiasts: the new PRUNE Keyword & k Shortest Path Feature. As always, please note Release Candidates are for testing purposes only and should not be used in production. Please see limitations of RC1 at the bottom of the page! If ... Read More

Feed: Blog – ArangoDB. Author: Christopher Woodward. When looking for a solution for your project, it is important to understand what makes each technology unique, what sets it apart. With ArangoDB that is its native multi-model approach including full graph database capabilities and I am going to explain the fundamental pieces of what that means. Using ArangoDB as a Graph Database If you are already familiar with the graph database concept, then you know that a graph consists of vertices (or nodes) connected via edges. Graph databases usually store edges connected to vertices directly at the vertex object. In ArangoDB ... Read More

Feed: Blog – ArangoDB. Author: Jan Stücke. Protecting personal data is already quite high on (hopefully) all priority lists. Protecting personal healthcare information is even more important. If you are a company or organization in the health services industry and you work with personal patient data, then you have most probably heard about HIPAA compliance. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a law passed in 1996 by US Congress that sets standards and protocols for the protection of patient data in the healthcare industry. Many of our users and customers asked us about building HIPAA compliant applications ... Read More

Feed: Blog – ArangoDB. Author: Willi Goesgens. This is an update of the 2016 blog post How to put ArangoDB to Spartan-Mode. A lot of things have changed in the last years. We moved our API implementation from JavaScript to C++. ArangoDB now has a new (default) storage engine, namely RocksDB instead of MMFiles. RocksDB is a great storage engine. However, it also trades memory for speed. If you start with the default configuration you might end up with using much more memory for ArangoDB than expected. Therefore let’s focus on our new storage engine, and make a configuration to ... Read More

Feed: Blog – ArangoDB. Author: Willi Goesgens. This is an update of the 2016 blog post How to put ArangoDB to Spartan-Mode. A lot of things have changed in the last years. We moved our API implementation from JavaScript to C++. ArangoDB now has a new (default) storage engine, namely RocksDB instead of MMFiles. RocksDB is a great storage engine. However, it also trades memory for speed. If you start with the default configuration you might end up with using much more memory for ArangoDB than expected. Therefore let’s focus on our new storage engine, and make a configuration to ... Read More