112 ArangoDB Reviews
The speed and the Graph feature in use for great visualization of geo data regarding our users Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Unfortunetely there is no official plugin for DataGrip, yet Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
ArangoDB provides a graphical interface which is rare among other providers, specially the visualization of graphs. Also, the pyArango library in python is quite rich. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The GUI sometimes crashes. Also, every time a graph is reloaded, the nodes' position changes, making it hard to follow. I wonder why for this visualization the random see is not fixed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
1- Easy to use, after the initial learning curve.
2- The best database I ever used. A joy to develop.
3- Really good support trough the Slack server. Every bug and question I had was fixed or answered in less than one day. There seems to be ArangoDB employees on the slack server. (or solid contributors)
4- The graph concept is extremly powerful. Every document is basically "Collection/id". For example, "Persons/1" is the first person.
5- Easy to use your own ID instead of generated ID (you simple pass the _key!)
6- Much much much more flexible than SQL.... in my case, I had to use it because my product enables user to build their own form and database. I wrote 90% less code with ArangoDB than a SQL database (SQLite, postgres). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
2 simples things that can be easily fixed by the company or community :
1- C# nuget package could have better documentation.
2- As of august 2022, ArangoSearch does not have a way to search for every field in an index. However, you can append data in a field, so there's a way to do it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
AQL, graph traversals and ArangoSearch are the most robust capabilities of the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
ArangoDB Viewer needs an overhaul and advanced analytic capabilities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
no issues with my demo's and training workshops material yet to role this out into production. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
More credits for testing please I ran out pretty quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The fact that ArangoDB has graphs around named and anonymous graphs and with a specific graph traversal syntax. In addition, ArangoDB also has the functionality of GeoJSON Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Some of the functions are rather specific to ArangoDB and functions like COLLECT in ArangoDB is too unique that it may be a little localized in some ways. Also, with specialized functions comes a learning curve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Definitely the greatest thing about this DB is its versatility. It is a swiss army knife of data storage, and comes with a very rich AQL query language that has a low learning curve and allows for tons of possibilities to manage and query documents, key-value, and graph data! Last but not least, it supports search via ArangoSearch which is comparable to Elastic Search, and also provides a way to have a REST API or GraphQL endpoint via its Foxx services, which integrates deep into the DB. Needless to say, of course, it integrates very well with Kubernetes and even has its own operator. As for language support, they offer well-maintained libraries for all the main programming languages in use today. All of this is free and open-source! And when you become successful, you can switch to their premium offering ArangoOasis that can run in your preferred cloud for even more peace of mind. To recap, if you are looking for a good GraphDB, then look no more, because you have just found a gem! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Honestly, nothing. I just which they advertised better the fact that GraphQL can be used fully via their Foxx microservices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
We have a mapping platform that has an immense amount of GeoJson data. During our platform architecture phase, having a graph database was a major requirement. We began the search through the more popular graph databases only to find that none of them handled GeoJson natively. This meant that we would need two databases, a graph database and one that natively handled GeoJson aka a NoSQL database. We were not happy....then we found ArangoDB which stores document, graph, and key-value data PLUS GeoJson natively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
So far, we do not find anything that we really do not like. If there was anything, it might be that their annual enterprise license is quite steep. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
ArangoDB is the best database I have used so far. The multi-model approach of storing graphs, documents, k/v and search all in one solution is a game-changer + IT SCALES! ArangoDB is really easy to pick up and everything seems very logical. The AQL (Arango query language) is very simple and intuitive, it took me and the team a couple of hours to get comfortable in writing queries. We were looking into TigerGraph and Neo4j before ArangoDB and it was not a hard decision to make, Neo4j simply doesn't scale (as we saw in our testing) and TG, even though being very performant was way too complex and writing queries was a nightmare to be honest. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The graph visualizer. It is ok, it has all the basic functions but it stops there. I hope that is next on their roadmap as this is the only area I see them being behind some of their competitors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
