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What’s new in ArangoDB 3.6: OneShard Deployments and Performance Improvements

Wed, 08 Jan 2020 12:07:00 +0000

Estimated reading time: 9 minutes Welcome 2020! To kick off this new year, we are pleased to announce the next version of our native multi-model database. So here is ArangoDB 3.6, a release that focuses heavily on improving overall performance and adds a powerful new feature that combines the performance characteristics of a single server…

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ArangoDB Hot Backup: Creating Consistent Cluster-Wide Snapshots

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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Building a Mini Database Cluster for Fun – LEGO Edition

Wed, 27 Feb 2019 12:49:10 +0000

ArangoDB is a native multi-model database that could be deployed as a single database, in active failover mode or as a full blown database cluster in the cloud. To try things out I can even run a cluster on my local development machine. Well, yes... but I wanted to be more real, 24x7, with the…

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Sharding: freedom, when you need it least?

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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Run multiple versions of ArangoDB in parallel using the .tar.gz distribution

Fri, 18 Jan 2019 10:06:41 +0000

This post uses the new `.tar.gz` binary distribution of ArangoDB to run multiple versions of ArangoDB alongside each other on the same machines. We will do a production-ready deployment on 3 cloud instances with authentication, TLS encryption, (self-signed) certificates and `systemd` service. In the end, we show how to perform a rolling upgrade for one…

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Deploying ArangoDB 3.4 on Kubernetes

Tue, 11 Dec 2018 09:39:39 +0000

It has been a few months since we first released the Kubernetes operator for ArangoDB and started to brag about it. Since then, quite a few things have happened. For example, we have done a lot of testing, fixed bugs, and by now the operator is declared to be production ready for three popular public…

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ArangoDB 3.4 GA Full-text Search, GeoJSON, Streaming & More

Thu, 06 Dec 2018 14:30:59 +0000

The ability to see your data from various perspectives is the idea of a multi-model database. Having the freedom to combine these perspectives into a single query is the idea behind native multi-model in ArangoDB. Extending this freedom is the main thought behind the release of ArangoDB 3.4. We’re always excited to put a new…

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RC1 ArangoDB 3.4 – What’s new?

Thu, 06 Sep 2018 11:12:36 +0000

For ArangoDB 3.4 we already added 100,000 lines of code, happily deleted 50,000 lines and changed over 13,000 files until today. We merged countless PRs, invested months of problem solving, hacking, testing, hacking and testing again and are super excited to share the feature complete RC1 of ArangoDB 3.4 with you today. Download the technical…

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The ArangoDB Operator for Kubernetes – Stateful Cluster Deployments in 5min

Tue, 20 Mar 2018 12:44:27 +0000

At ArangoDB we’ve got many requests for running our database on Kubernetes. This makes complete sense since Kubernetes is a highly popular system for deploying, scaling and managing containerized applications. Running any stateful application on Kubernetes is a bit more involved than running a stateless application, because of the storage requirements and potentially other requirements…

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ArangoDB Cluster Administration Course Released

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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