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Feed: Blog – ArangoDB. Author: Jan Stücke. 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 There are for sure elements in the vaccine development process shown above that can’t be done much faster in order to develop a safe and effective vaccine. But for other steps, modern technology ... Read More

Feed: Blog – ArangoDB. Author: Ewout Prangsma. ArangoDB Oasis, the cloud service of ArangoDB, has reached an important milestone. We are glad to announce that Azure support is generally available in ArangoDB Oasis as of today! Currently Azure is supported in the following regions: West US, WashingtonEast US, VirginiaCentral Canada, TorontoUK, LondonWest Europe, Netherlands Why is this relevant? When we launched Oasis in November last year, we started with regions in the Google and AWS cloud. Even before our launch we already got lots of questions for supporting Azure regions. While the reasons why people want to run on Azure ... Read More

Feed: Blog – ArangoDB. Author: Ewout Prangsma. 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. What is it (not)? So what is the API about and what can you do with it? And didn’t ArangoDB already have an API? How is this ... Read More

Feed: Blog – ArangoDB. Author: Joerg Schad. TL;DR 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 ... Read More

Feed: Blog – ArangoDB. Author: Christopher Woodward. Valid Email Address Required. const username = ;const password = ; const database = ; 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. To get access to the sandbox simply click ‘Get Sandbox Credentials’. Your tutorial sandbox is a fully accessible ArangoDB database and will be available for up to 4 hours from creation. Let’s Get Started! Now that you have your sandbox credentials, we can ... Read More

Feed: Blog – ArangoDB. Author: Joerg Schad. TL;DR 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 ... Read More

Feed: Blog – ArangoDB. Author: Kaveh Vahedipour. In each verse, a decision awaits us and we can’tchoose to close our eyes and let instinct work on its own.Octavio Paz tldr 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. Best practices Many of us have come to experience database infrastructure like a solid rock to rely upon when the going gets rough. It is the mission statement of any database, that comes to my mind right now: Trust ... Read More

Feed: Blog – ArangoDB. Author: Joerg Schad. 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. If you would like to see ArangoDB Kubernetes Operator in action, join our Head of Engineering and Machine Learning, Jörg Schad, on March 17, 2020 – 11am PDT/ 2pm EDT/ 7pm CET for a live webinar. ArangoDB in the Cloud Native Ecosystem You might wonder why is a Kubernetes operator such a big deal for ... Read More

Feed: Blog – ArangoDB. Author: Jan Stücke. 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. We refer ... Read More

Feed: Blog – ArangoDB. Author: Ewout Prangsma. 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 ... Read More