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Re:ArangoDB by poseid on Friday December 06, 2013 @03:44AM (#6860127)
Yet, if you have to rollout a database server and an application server, it can be quite some overhead for certain kind of applications. I think this data-layer on top of the data store is especially interesting for e.g. backends in a network world, where your data is distributed, or e.g. when you need to aggregate data from multiple sources.

Or, what use case is your comment about?

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Re:ArangoDB by bjerun on Friday December 06, 2013 @04:33AM (#6860271)
IMHO nowadays quite a lot of logic is moved into the front-end (for example "single web application"). In these cases you only need to provide some API in the back-end. But normally you need a bit more then "just" the data:

- some access control (e. g. sessions) - compute some fields (e. g. "age" derived from "birthday") - combine and filter data before transfering it the client (e. g. for graph traversals)

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