Active Failover Limitations

The Active Failover setup in ArangoDB has a few limitations. Some of these limitations may be removed in later versions of ArangoDB:

  • Even though it is already possible to have several followers of the same leader, currently only one follower is officially supported
  • Should you add more than one follower, be aware that during a failover situation there is no preference for followers which are more up to date with the failed leader.
  • At the moment it is not possible to read from followers
  • All requests will be redirected to the leader