Features and Improvements:

• Sharding - ArangoDB 2.0 can be run in a clustered mode, allowing to use multiple database servers together as if they were a single database. This is an optional feature that must be turned on and configured explicitly. More information about the setup and the design decisions of ArangoDB's sharding feature can be found in the Sharding manual. ArangoDB can still be used as a single server database.
• New Web Interface - The web interface has been refurbished in ArangoDB 2.0. It now also allows planning and managing clusters visually, and comes with built-in user management, available from via the "Tools" menu item.
• Changed shape storage - Prior to ArangoDB 2.0, the structure of documents stored (called "shapes" in ArangoDB lingo) was saved in separate collections (the "shape collections"). The separate storage of structural information and the actual document data caused overhead when a document with a new shape was saved. In this case, two writes were required (one into the shape collection, and for the actual document data). ArangoDB 2.0 now saves the shape information inside the same collection as the document data goes into, requiring less writes and potentially less space. This saves up to 2 MB of memory and disk space for each collection. The actual savings depend on the number and size of shapes per collection, but the following rule of thumb applies: the less different shapes there are in a collection, the higher the savings. Additionally, one less file descriptor will be used per opened collection.
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Features and Improvements:

• Sharding - ArangoDB 2.0 can be run in a clustered mode, allowing to use multiple database servers together as if they were a single database. This is an optional feature that must be turned on and configured explicitly. More information about the setup and the design decisions of ArangoDB's sharding feature can be found in the more...