ArangoDB Reviews

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4.7/5 (Based on 111 Ratings)

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User Sentiments

AQL Query Language, Multi-Model Approach, Performance and Scalability, Foxx Microservices

ArangoSearch Limitations, Documentation Issues, Graph Visualizer Limitations, Complex Cluster Setup

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ArangoDB is praised for its powerful multi-model capabilities, allowing users to store and query structured, unstructured, and graph data within a single system. Users highlight its AQL query language as robust, efficient, and easy to learn, making complex queries more accessible. However, some users found limitations in data pivoting, facet calculation performance, and full-text search functionality. While the community version offers a permissive Apache license, some advanced features like encryption at rest are only available in the enterprise edition. Several users mention needing more granular access control on a document or attribute level. Overall, ArangoDB is considered a feature-rich database that empowers users to gain insights from complex data structures, but some aspects of its functionality and accessibility require improvement.

Pros

ArangoDB efficiently stores structured and unstructured data, simplifying insights extraction.
Powerful AQL query language with drivers for languages like TypeScript and Python.
Offers a wide range of deployment options: standalone, containerized, or managed service.

Cons

Data pivoting is limited, and facet calculation performance can be poor.
Fulltext search functionality is basic, lacking vector store and similarity search for embeddings.
Finegrained access control is lacking, restricting document or attribute level permissions.

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Verified User in Financial Services

April 28, 2025 Source: G2.com

Efficient, Scalable, and Developer-Friendly

What do you like best about ArangoDB?

Seamlessly handles graph, document, and key-value data in one powerful engine

What do you dislike about ArangoDB?

Steep learning curve and limited community support for complex queries

What problems is ArangoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

ArangoDB solves the challenge of managing multiple data models separately by combining graph, document, and key-value storage in one system. This flexibility saves time, reduces infrastructure complexity, and allows me to design more efficient and scalable applications without juggling multiple databases.

Verified User in Computer Software

December 16, 2024 Source: G2.com

Suport for schema-less design tasks using ArangoDB.

What do you like best about ArangoDB?

The compatibility between the looseness of schema-less design and the flexibility as a graph database is excellent.

What do you dislike about ArangoDB?

The ability to write JSON-first queries using AQL.

Recommendations to others considering ArangoDB?

Conveniently includes a rich Web UI.

What problems is ArangoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is equipped with a full-text search engine that is relatively easy to use.

Rahul O

November 25, 2024 Source: G2.com

Being in an early stage startup it helped me to do my initial POC very fast and helped me with my research on Graph RAG Graph Rag done with Arango DB

What do you like best about ArangoDB?

Arango DB was suggested to me by my seniour as it's open source and provide a great platform for graph databases, It was very user friendly for a graph database, it was very easy to create vetices for the graph visuallise them in my local container and there after making edge definition and connecting them saved me so much time for initial POC with graph RAG.

What do you dislike about ArangoDB?

Documentation for the DB can be better with a section of website dedicated only Documentation in details i found myself going website to website finding the things i needed for my use case other than that it was really good.

What problems is ArangoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

Being an Open Source DB it's solving the problem of not being expensive for starters there after it's beginer freindly implementation can be learned by freashers and can easily be incorporated to prodution grade systems.

Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain

November 21, 2024 Source: G2.com

ArangoDB For MetaData

What do you like best about ArangoDB?

It is simple. Much better than Mongo. Treating edges as collection, I believe a mster stroke. Enables both graph and document DB at a time

What do you dislike about ArangoDB?

Nothing at time point. Probabaly not yet being comoatiable Gremilian?

What problems is ArangoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have a situation where the meta-data about our solution has complex relationships. At each node, the data needs to be schemaless. We also may need to do traverse the graphs in multiple complex ways. And, do so quickly and have the ability to hos this data platform within our cluster.

LUCIEN T

November 20, 2024 Source: G2.com

A Versatile and User-Friendly Multi-Model Database

What do you like best about ArangoDB?

The web interface is particularly impressive, offering an intuitive dashboard that makes database management straightforward even for those new to NoSQL systems. The AQL query language feels natural, especially if you're coming from SQL, and the documentation is comprehensive and well-organized.

What do you dislike about ArangoDB?

The only downside is once you start using it, you can not stop ! bye bye airtables

Recommendations to others considering ArangoDB?

Sorting data in one place.

What problems is ArangoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

Speeding the process of finding the information quickly

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

November 20, 2024 Source: G2.com

Tu be explored

What do you like best about ArangoDB?

Its comprehensible. The tutorials are really great, we can fastly have access to the power of graph databases.

What do you dislike about ArangoDB?

For the moment, as it is my begining, I do not have any "dislikes" on the subject.

What problems is ArangoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is used in our clinical data warehouse.

Simone M

November 19, 2024 Source: G2.com

Arango is a complete platform for complex projects

What do you like best about ArangoDB?

.the possibility to work with graphs in a complex way

What do you dislike about ArangoDB?

the limitation of the community edition to 100GB

What problems is ArangoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

Arango is used by our dba to create a flexible structure for importing and exporting huge amount of data and connections

Soumitra B

November 17, 2024 Source: G2.com

A Database which offers document, graph, and key-value storage with a powerful query language.

What do you like best about ArangoDB?

Its simple query language (AQL) compared to complex cypher queries of other databases.

What do you dislike about ArangoDB?

nothing as such but expanding community support and resources, such as tutorials and forums, would help users troubleshoot issues more effectively

What problems is ArangoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have an apllication which needs to perform certain queries of users in simple english language on a created and stored knowledge graph in arangodb, we have our own logic to convert those simple english queries to AQL.

Verified User in Computer Software

November 5, 2024 Source: G2.com

Graph Easy to setup and integrate

What do you like best about ArangoDB?

Instructions to setup ArangoDB Community (using docker) are clear. Integration with existing project is smooth

What do you dislike about ArangoDB?

Setting up ArangoDB to perform semantic search on a specific node property looks complicated. One needs to define a metric function (e.g., cosine similarity). Would be nice to have a wrapper that does this

What problems is ArangoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

Storing state machine as a

Kevin B

November 1, 2024 Source: G2.com

Arango cloud is a brilliant hassle free offering

What do you like best about ArangoDB?

The mixture of document, search and graph has made our decisions easier. We can limit our stack to use Arango and not have an explosion of vendor systems for each purpose.

What do you dislike about ArangoDB?

Sometimes you require to load subgraphs inmemory to do intense computations as AQL can be a bit strange to work with. Maintaining your own can take additional resouces but using arango cloud ensures the experts take care of it for you. There are not enough connectors to BI tools and ETL tools so you need to write them yourself.

Recommendations to others considering ArangoDB?

Building our knowledge graph to augment clinical knowledge, we use arango to run our ontology searches, hold transactional data, and as a source of truth for data used by our data science team.

What problems is ArangoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

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Verified User in Financial Services

Verified User in Computer Software

Rahul O

Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain

LUCIEN T

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Simone M

Soumitra B

Verified User in Computer Software

Kevin B

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