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Reference documentation

General

• Architecture
• Main concepts
  • URL, Record, Document, RecordID, Class, Relationships, Database, Storage, Cluster, Data Segment
• Common use cases resolved
• Drivers and Language Bindings (supported programming languages) - Plugins
• Configuration and Performance tuning, Profiler
• Import-From-RDBMS, how to import Relational exports
• Troubleshooting:
  • Troubleshooting Java API

Hot Topics

• All the Supported types
• Object Oriented Inheritance
• Functions
• Security architecture
• Indexes to speed up searches
• Caching levels
• Distributed Architecture clustering multiple OrientDB servers all together. Look also at the Distributed Routing, Replication and Distributed Configuration
• Logging strategies
• ACID Transactions
• Binary data management (BLOB)

API

• Java APIs
  • JavaDoc (latest version)
  • Document-Database
  • Object-Database
    • Object to record Java binding
  • Graph Database
    • Native raw implementation
    • Tinkerpop implementation with the usage of Gremlin language
  • Traverse records
  • JDBC
  • Use it from Java Web Applications
  • Manage remote server instance via API
  • Multi Threading
  • Fetching-Strategies
  • Manage the Schema
  • Hooks - Triggers
  • Embed the Server
  • Troubleshooting Java API
• Scala API
• Javascript-API
• HTTP RESTful API

Query languages

• SQL
  • SQL expression syntax - Operators - SQL-Where#functions
  • Select used as command and for queries
  • Traverse to cross records by relationships
  • Insert to insert new records
  • Update to update one or more records
  • Delete to delete one or more records
  • Create Vertex, Create Edge, Delete Edge and Delete Vertex to work with graphs
  • Truncate Class, Truncate Cluster, Truncate Record
  • Grant and Revoke
  • Create Class, Alter Class, Drop Class, Create Property, Alter Property, Drop Property
  • Create Index, Rebuild Index, Drop Index
  • Create Link
  • Find References
  • Alter Database, Alter Cluster
  • Explain
  • Pagination
  • Pivoting-With-Query
  • Syntax
• Javascript
• Gremlin Graph manipulation language

Tools

• DB-Server - (roadmap - history)
  • Plugins:
    • Automatic-Backup
    • EMail Plugin
    • JMX-Plugin
    • Distributed-Server-Manager
    • Server-side script interpreter
  • HTTP RESTful Protocol
  • Network-Binary-Protocol
  • Wrapping-As-A-Windows-Service
• OrientDB Studio app
• Gephi Graph Analysis Visual tool
• Rexster Support and configuration
• Console
  • Connect, Disconnect
  • Database: Create Database, Drop Database
  • Information: Info, Clusters, Browse Cluster,
  • Info Class, Classes, Browse Class
  • Transactions: Begin, Commit, Rollback
  • Dictionary: Dictionary Keys, Dictionary Get, Dictionary Put, Dictionary Remove
  • Load Record, Reload Record, Display Record, Export Record
  • Export database, Import database
  • Config: Config, Config Get, Config Set
  • Console Command Profiler, Declare Intent, Properties, Get, Set
  • Freeze Database, Release Database

Misc

• Continuous integration kindly hosted and managed by Andrey Lomakin

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