ArangoDB Foxx | Building Microservices with JavaScript

Foxx CLI – Managing Microservices

Michele Rastelli — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 09:42:57 +0000

Anyone who has ever worked with our JavaScript framework Foxx was faced at some point with the challenge to install its Foxx service in its current ArangoDB instance or to replace the installed service with local code changes. This is not a big deal and can easily be done through ArangoDB’s WebUI. However, we developers…

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Auto-Generate GraphQL for ArangoDB

Frank Celler — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 08:01:54 +0000

Currently, querying ArangoDB with GraphQL requires building a GraphQL.js schema. This is tedious and the resulting JavaScript schema file can be long and bulky. Here we will demonstrate a short proof of concept that reduces the user related part to only defining the GraphQL IDL file and simple AQL queries. The Apollo GraphQL project built…

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ArangoDB | Geo Demonstration Using Foxx – Location-Aware Applications

Heiko Kernbach — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 14:52:09 +0000

Geo data is getting more and more important for today’s applications. The growing number of location-aware services, IoT applications and other solutions using latitude and longitude ask for precise and fast processing of geo data. Let me show you in this quick demonstration how you can use geo functions and visualize your data using Foxx…

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ArangoDB | Pronto Move Shard – Multi-Model NoSQL Database

Frank Celler — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 14:54:28 +0000

In July Adobe announced that they plan the End-of-Life for flash at around 2020. As HTML5 progressed and due to a long history of critical security vulnerabilities this is – technologically speaking – certainly the right decision. However I tended to also become a bit sad. Flash was the first technology that brought interactivity to…

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ArangoDB 3.2: RocksDB, Pregel, Fault Tolerant Foxx, Satellite Collections

Frank Celler — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 13:00:26 +0000

We are pleased to announce the release of ArangoDB 3.2. Get it here. After an unusually long hackathon, we eliminated two large roadblocks, added a long overdue feature and integrated an interesting new one into this release. Furthermore, we’re proud to report that we increased performance of ArangoDB on average by 35%, while at the same…

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ArangoDB 3.2: Enhanced GraphQL Sync

Alan Plum — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 08:12:05 +0000

Just in time for the upcoming 3.2.0 release, we have updated the graphql-sync module for compatibility with graphql-js versions 0.7.2, 0.8.2, 0.9.6 and 0.10.1. The graphql-sync module allows developers to implement GraphQL backends and schemas in strictly synchronous JavaScript environments like the ArangoDB Foxx framework by providing a thin wrapper around the official GraphQL implementation for JavaScript. As…

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ArangoDB 3.2 Beta: RocksDB Storage Engine & Distributed Graph Cluster

Julie Ferrario — Tue, 13 Jun 2017 11:35:11 +0000

We’re excited to release today the beta of ArangoDB 3.2. It’s feature rich, well tested and hopefully plenty of fun for all of you. Keen to take it for a spin? Get ArangoDB 3.2 beta here. With ArangoDB 3.2, we’re introducing the long-awaited pluggable storage engine and its first new citizen, RocksDB from Facebook RocksDB:…

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ArangoDB FoxxChallenge: Developer Competition

Julie Ferrario — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 17:18:59 +0000

The Challenge Starting today we launch the ArangoDB #FoxxChallenge and the winner will receive a brand new Amazon Echo. Use your knowledge about everyday needs in projects and create a Foxx service that could be helpful for others. If you need some inspiration here some ideas: enable role-based authorisation with Foxx: Such a service might…

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How to model customer surveys in a graph database

Michael Hackstein — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 13:45:56 +0000

Use-Case The graph database use-case we are stepping through in this post is the following: In our web application we have several places where a user is led through a survey, where she decides on details for one of our products. Some of the options within the survey depend on previous decisions and some are…

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Using GraphQL with ArangoDB: A NoSQL Database Solution

Alan Plum — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 12:45:19 +0000

GraphQL is a query language created by Facebook for modern web and mobile applications as an alternative to REST APIs. Following the original announcement alongside Relay, Facebook has published an official specification and reference implementation in JavaScript. Recently projects outside Facebook like Meteor have also begun to embrace GraphQL. Users have been asking us how…

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