Hello friends, please sit down and have a cup of tea, today we’re going to talk about ArangoDB. It is a database. Have you ever heard of it? I had not, until yesterday. But I came across a brilliant article from this database developers. Let me tell a few words about the database itself and about their article.
After the previous post, our application server works, can receive requests and even return some kind of responses, which is already great and you can go into production with it! But probably it would make sense to add some more functionality to it. And in this post, we will integrate a database and implement a RESTful API.
I recently started my new pet-project using ExpressJS as a backend API server, so it's a good time to document each step and help node.js newcomers to start building real things using this great technology.
I plan to write a series of posts about databases internals. In order to make it easily perceivable, I'll be writing a NoSQL DB from scratch in Ruby. No doubts that it's not the best fit for database development, but it's extremely readable and will help us a lot. This one will be about why may you want to have an index and what is a Hash index.
Today I gave a talk on Ruby User Group Berlin meetup, here is a recap of it in a readable format.
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