The article starts with a discussion of storing large numbers in JSON.
JSON does not restrict the range of numbers. It happens they many languages that parse JSON do, but ArangoDB could try and be different! :)
JSON does not restrict the range of numbers. It happens they many languages that parse JSON do, but ArangoDB could try and be different! :)
If Arango would just allow unlimited numbers in JSON data and sort them numerically, developers could use a different JSON encoder and parser in their language of choice, that would encode and parse numbers from the unlimited representation allowed by JSON to whatever bignum library their language has.