Kaveh Vahedipour, Author at ArangoDB

Monitoring ArangoDB with Promotheus and Grafana

Kaveh Vahedipour — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 14:22:42 +0000

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…

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ArangoDB Hot Backup: Creating Consistent Cluster-Wide Snapshots

Kaveh Vahedipour — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 09:55:12 +0000

Introduction “Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.” Franz Kafka Franz Kafka’s talents wouldn’t have been wasted as DBA. Well, reasonable people might disagree. With this article, we are shouting out a new enterprise feature for ArangoDB: consistent online single server or cluster-wide “hot backups.” If you do not care…

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Sharding: freedom, when you need it least?

Kaveh Vahedipour — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 15:28:25 +0000

“I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!” ― Mark Twain How many shards should one choose, when creating collections in ArangoDB clusters? TLDR: Don’t be too shy with sharding your data in many shards across your cluster. Be mindful however that…

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ArangoDB Cluster Administration Course Released

Kaveh Vahedipour — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:35:37 +0000

Cluster Administration course will take you all the way from concept and anatomy of the ArangoDB cluster to maintenance, resilience and troubleshooting of your distributed environment. When data size or workload makes purchasing of a single database server prohibitive one needs to rethink the system architecture and consider to cluster a farm of more affordable…

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ArangoDB: Consensus for Enhanced Data Stability

Kaveh Vahedipour — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 14:05:06 +0000

nihil novi nisi commune consensu nothing new unless by the common consensus – law of the polish-lithuanian common-wealth, 1505 A warning aforehand: this is a rather longish post, but hang in there it might be saving you a lot of time one day. Introduction Consensus has its etymological roots in the latin verb consentire, which…

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