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ArangoDB 3.0 Release – A Solid Ground to Scale
- sedlich 10y agoCongratulations! What a nice bunch of new features. Thinking all three models from the ground up has really payed off! Will check out the docker image soon...
- neunhoef 10y agoMax from ArangoDB here. Just to avoid disappointment: The official Docker image arangodb will need a few days to be updated and be validated by Docker. Use arangodb/arangodb:3.0.0 in the meantime.
- overcast 10y agoAwesome, I JUST started using ArangoDB for my latest project. So far so good, and these changes look solid. Only thing I wish they had(unless I'm missing something), is a GridFS type storage.
- merqurio 10y agoPure curiosity, why do you miss GridFS? I think ArangoDB it already does that, back in time there was journal size setting, I'm not sure if it still has.
- overcast 10y agoI need a simple way to store a lot of photos, GridFS interface is simple, and I don't have to worry about screwing around with filesystems / folder structures. Mongo takes cares of all the sharding and what not. One man operation here!
- janemanos 10y agoHi this is Jan2 from ArangoDB... my team mate Jan1 wrote a blogpost: You can already handle binary data with ArangoDB Foxx framework... here is how http://jsteemann.github.io/blog/2016/06/22/handling-binary-data-in-foxx-3-0/ http://jsteemann.github.io/blog/2016/06/22/handling-binary-d...
- overcast 10y agoInteresting, not sure I want to go down that route of creating a separate Foxx service to essentially shoehorn in blobs. We'll see what happens in the future, when that becomes native. But since you guys love incorporating many types of databases into one, add ArangoFS ;)
- merqurio 10y agoGreat news! We decided a couple of months ago to go with arangoDB, we have built already a 32Gb Graph Database and so far it has performed really well. It's easy to install and great as a first contact on the GraphDB world aside from Neo4J.
- arthursilva 10y agoMad respect for these guys/gals, they managed to squeeze two game changing features in a single release: VPack and Clustering 2.0.
- pluma 10y agoNot to blow my own trumpet but I think the new Foxx API (for letting you write your own HTTP endpoints in JS) is a huge step forward, too ;) (I'm the lead developer of the new ArangoDB Foxx, AMA)
- merqurio 10y agoFoxx microservices are the best. I love them
- egeozcan 10y agoDo you have an example app written with some benchmarks? It says that we can utilize npm, so, how is the compatibility with node? Native (C++) modules? Is it used already in production somewhere? (I am asking a lot of questions because I'm very interested, not anything else)
- pluma 10y agoHi egeozcan, 1) I don't think we currently have a benchmark specifically for Foxx. However we did some one-off tests in 2.8 and there was no noticeable difference between the plain HTTP API and a Foxx service using the equivalent JS API (just the V8 context switches). 2) See the section "Compatibility Caveats" in the docs: https://docs.arangodb.com/3.0/Manual/Foxx/Dependencies.html https://docs.arangodb.com/3.0/Manual/Foxx/Dependencies.html Specifically we can't support native modules and there are limits to what Node APIs we can support (network and filesystem APIs are different and more restricted, also Foxx is entirely synchronous). 3) Yes! Check out the case studies linked a the bottom of the website: https://www.arangodb.com/#casestudies https://www.arangodb.com/#casestudies All three of them use Foxx. I also dogfood Foxx: I'm the lead developer of a commercial e-learning product that uses full-stack JS with ArangoDB. Feel free to swing by our community Slack channel if you have more questions: https://slack.arangodb.com https://slack.arangodb.com
- nrjames 10y agoIs there a reliable python module for working with ArangoDB 3.0?
- merqurio 10y agoWe use joowani/python-arango, but I haven't test it with 3.0 yet.
- zimbatm 10y agoDoes ArangoDB support streaming queries like RethinkDB?
- fceller 10y agoWe are evaluating various possibilities, how to implement streaming queries in an efficient and scalable way. For instance, are restrictions to the general AQL necessary for such queries to be able to scale? Stay tuned.
- reactor 10y agoWe have been using ArangoDB (2.8.x) for some time. Solid product with awesome support in Google group and SO. Great job guys! Looking forward to migrate to 3.x especially for the persistent index.
- Diederich 10y agoThis looks pretty fantastic! I'm going to give it a whirl at my company...except... It apparently uses Facebook's RocksDB, which is also, I'm told, a pretty nice package. However, there is this: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/blob/master/PATENTS https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/blob/master/PATENTS "The license granted hereunder will terminate, automatically and without notice, if you (or any of your subsidiaries, corporate affiliates or agents) initiate directly or indirectly, or take a direct financial interest in, any Patent Assertion: (i) against Facebook or any of its subsidiaries or corporate affiliates," ... and so on. I think that means that if my company goes after (in any way, shape or fashion) any Facebook patents, and we're using ArangoDB, we're instantly in copyright violation. Is this a roughly accurate assessment? Thanks!
- bryanlarsen 10y agoYou don't lose your copyright license, you lose the patent grant. Most MIT/BSD licensed software doesn't come with a patent grant; many people assume that you get an implicit grant but that opinion will vary depending on which lawyer you talk to.
- Diederich 10y agoOk, I think that makes sense. So, to restate, that means that RocksDB (or whatever) might have Facebook patented code/material in it, and Facebook is granting a very generous grant to use those patents. ...until a given organization comes into patent conflict with any of Facebook's patents, at which time their grants disappear. So if I'm understanding that correctly, doesn't that basically mean the same thing? You're no longer allowed to use their software?
- bryanlarsen 10y ago"until a given organization comes into patent conflict with any of Facebook's patents" Note that the grants only disappear if you initiate the conflict; they don't disappear if Facebook initiates and you counter-sue.
- continuational 10y agoCan I change the number of shards on an existing collection without taking it offline?
- fceller 10y agoHi, I'm Frank from ArangoDB. You should create a number of shards that is much higher than your initial number of servers. ArangoDB can cope with multiple shards per server. This way, you can easily redistribute shards when adding new servers.
- continuational 10y agoThank you for the answer. I'm currently dealing with an inflow of about one million documents a day; it's an ever growing collection (grows by a few TB each year). Should I just configure it with 1000 shards? Or would it perform bettet with fewer shards?
- fceller 10y agoyes, using 1000 shards would work. Eventually, we will also support splitting shards.
- continuational 10y agoThank you, that was the answer I was hoping for.
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- hexalisk 10y agoI would love to see a comparison between Arangodb and Rethinkdb, especially performance wise. Is it suitable for realtime applications? What language drivers are supported?
- don71 10y agoClaudius from ArangoDB here. Frank already answered a question about realtime queries below: "We are evaluating various possibilities, how to implement streaming queries in an efficient and scalable way. For instance, are restrictions to the general AQL necessary for such queries to be able to scale? Stay tuned." Regarding performance, it would be great if somebody with excellent knowledge about rethinkdb would contribute to https://github.com/weinberger/nosql-tests https://github.com/weinberger/nosql-tests
- ralusek 10y agoThis looks really interesting. Is there a NodeJS ORM comparable to Mongoose for using Arango?
- fceller 10y agoYou can use the Foxx framework to create a REST api that suits your needs. There is also a community project for an ORM, see https://github.com/arangodb/arangojs/issues/215 https://github.com/arangodb/arangojs/issues/215 However, in general it is more flexible and safer to use Foxx, because it allows you to fine tune complexes queries and supports transactions.