Introducing ArangoDB 3.8 – Graph Analytics at Scale
With this release, we improve many analytics use cases we have been seeing – both from our customers and open-source users – with the addition of new features such as AQL window operations, graph and Geo analytics, as well as new ArangoSearch functionality.
If you want to get your hands on ArangoDB 3.8, you can either download the Community or Enterprise Edition, pull our Docker images, or start a free trial of our managed service Oasis.
As with any release, ArangoDB 3.8 comes with many improvements, bug fixes, and features. Feel free to browse through the complete feature list in the release notes to appreciate all the work which has gone into this release.
In this blog post, we want to focus on some of the highlights including AQL Window Operations, Weighted Graph Traversals, Pipeline Analyzer and Geo Support in ArangoSearch.
The WINDOW operation performs a COLLECT AGGREGATE-like operation on a set of query rows. However, whereas a COLLECT operation groups multiple query rows into a single result group, a WINDOW operation produces a result for each query row:
