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SmartGraphs and SatelliteGraphs on a Single Server
Simulate SmartGraphs and SatelliteGraphs on a single server to make it easier to port them to an ArangoDB cluster later
ArangoDB Enterprise Edition ArangoGraph
General idea
You can create SmartGraphs and SatelliteGraphs in a single server instance and
test them there. Internally, the graphs are General Graphs, supplemented by
formal properties such as isSmart, which play no role in the behavior of the
graphs, however. The same is true for vertex and edge collections: they have the
corresponding properties, but they are non-functional.
After a test phase, you can dump such graphs and then restore them in a cluster instance. The graphs themselves and the vertex and edge collections obtain true SmartGraph or SatelliteGraph sharding properties as if they were created in the cluster.
The Procedure
On a single server, create SmartGraphs or
SatelliteGraphs graphs by using
arangosh as usual. Then you can set all the cluster-relevant properties of
graphs and collections:
numberOfShardsisSmartisSatellitereplicationFactorsmartGraphAttributesatellitesshardingStrategy
After that, you can dump the graphs with
arangodump as usual.
Restore the dumped data into a running ArangoDB cluster. As a result, all cluster relevant properties are restored correctly and affect the sharding and the performance as expected.