Building a Simple Front-End for Your ArangoDB Datasource

A major pain point around building apps is designing the UI elements. Fortunately, with Appsmith, you create a custom frontend in minutes. Connecting datasources with Appsmith takes a few minutes, and you can easily build tools on top of the database of your choice. For example, you can build admin panels to manage product catalogs, read content data from your database and use that to populate your e-commerce website, and then write more data and update your existing orders in the database. The possibilities are countless.

In this blog, I will teach you how to build a frontend that can connect to ArangoDB as a datasource.

Do Graph Databases Scale?

Graph Databases are a great solution for many modern use cases: Fraud Detection, Knowledge Graphs, Asset Management, Recommendation Engines, IoT, Permission Management … you name it. 

All such projects benefit from a database technology capable of analyzing highly connected data points and their relations fast – Graph databases are designed for these tasks.

Building a Mini Database Cluster for Fun: LEGO Edition

ArangoDB is a native multi-model database that can be deployed as a single database, in active failover mode, or as a full-blown database cluster in the cloud. I could even run a cluster on my local development machine.

Well, yes...but I wanted to be more real, 24×7, with the opportunity to manipulate all the things...