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Known Issues
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The following known issues are present in this version of ArangoDB:
### Cluster Deployment
The beta does not yet support a DC/OS deployment. You can use the ArangoDB Starter to
start a cluster omn bare metal.
### Read-Only Users
The beta allows to add read-only users. However, these are not yet supported.
### RocksDB storage engine
The RocksDB storage engine is intentionally missing the following features that
are present in the MMFiles engine:
* the datafile debugger (arango-dfdb) cannot be used with this storage engine
RocksDB has its own crash recovery so using the dfdb will not make any sense here.
* APIs that return collection properties or figures will return slightly different
attributes for the RocksDB engine than for the MMFiles engine. For example, the
attributes `journalSize`, `doCompact`, `indexBuckets` and `isVolatile` are present
in the MMFiles engine but not in the RocksDB engine. The memory usage figures reported
for collections in the RocksDB engine are estimate values, whereas they are
exact for the MMFiles engine.
* the RocksDB engine does not support some operations which only make sense in the
context of the MMFiles engine. These are:
- the `rotate` method on collections
- the `flush` method for WAL files
* transactions are limited in size. Transactions that get too big (in terms of
number of operations involved or the total size of data modified by the transaction)
will be committed automatically. Effectively this means that big user transactions
are split into multiple smaller RocksDB transactions that are committed individually.
The entire user transaction will not necessarily have ACID properties in this case.
The threshold values for transaction sizes can be configured globally using the
startup options
* `--rocksdb.intermediate-commit-size`: if the size of all operations in a transaction
reaches this threshold, the transaction is committed automatically and a new transaction
is started. The value is specified in bytes.
* `--rocksdb.intermediate-commit-count`: if the number of operations in a transaction
reaches this value, the transaction is committed automatically and a new transaction
is started.
* `--rocksdb.max-transaction-size`: this is an upper limit for the total number of bytes
of all operations in a transaction. If the operations in a transaction consume more
than this threshold value, the transaction will automatically abort with error 32
("resource limit exceeded").
It is also possible to override these thresholds per transaction.
The following known issues will be resolved in future releases:
* the RocksDB engine is not yet performance-optimized and potentially not well configured
* collections for which a geo index is present will use collection-level write locks
even with the RocksDB engine. Reads from these collections can still be done in parallel
but no writes
* modifying documents in a collection with a geo index will cause multiple additional
writes to RocksDB for maintaining the index structures
* the number of documents reported for collections (`db.<collection>.count()`) may be
slightly wrong during transactions if there are parallel transactions ongoing for the
same collection that also modify the number of documents
* the `any` operation to provide a random document from a collection is supported
by the RocksDB engine but the operation has much higher algorithmic complexity than
in the MMFiles engine. It is therefore discouraged to call it for cases other than manual
inspection of a few documents in a collection
* AQL queries in the cluster still issue an extra locking HTTP request per shard though
this would not be necessary for the RocksDB engine in most cases.
### Installer
* Upgrading from 3.1 to 3.2 on Windows requires the user to manually copy the database directory
to the new location and run an upgrade on the database. Please consult the
[Documentation](https://docs.arangodb.com/devel/Manual/GettingStarted/Installing/Windows.html)
for detailed instructions.
### Web UI
* Edition label beyond ArangoDB Logo looks blurry in Safari on Mac OS X.
* AQL Editor: Selecting "all results" as limit option will return zero results, which is wrong.