Sky R.
SR
Sky R.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"ArangoDb - Powerful database for all"
4/5
What do you like best about Arango?

ArangoDb is an extremeley versatile and well featured database. Being truly mulit-model, it can serve any purpose most developers would require, along with fulltext and geospatial queries.

Whilst our use of ArangoDb has barely touched the surface, we know that the power it can bring is always right there for when we need it

The AQL language is pretty clear, though it can take a little while to fully bake-in how to update or shape results as you need, and the various ways you can filter the data, often means you need to come back and re-factor queries as the data grows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Arango?

It's Cloud service pricing. Because ArangoDb fits within it's own ecospace, the only managed service I know at time of writing is their own, ArangoDb Oasis, and with a recent price hike, it's untenable for a majority of startups wanting to use ArangoDb but not worry about maintaing the system and not have to learn how to sys-admin the Db themselves on self-hosted instances.

I truly feel they should offer a much simpler variation and at a rate similar to AWS RDS's managed services which has basic managed requirements like automated backups, log rotation and fault tolerance to downtime, without the need for the multi-sharding infrastucture. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
UI
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"It was overwhelming to the ArangoDB"
4/5
What do you like best about Arango?

It was simple to setup and was easy to understand. Now whenever we got some issue, the customer support was always their to tackle the issue. Now after the setup of arrango the frequent use of it between developer has increase and because of the its wide range of features we could integrate it easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Arango?

There were not such dislikes but somewhere accessing the data was not an cakewalk. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Verified User in Computer Software
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Pretty intuitive and works well, editor is pretty bad"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Arango?

The query language is simple and makes sense

the graph presentation is nice

Using the SDK is fine Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Arango?

The editor is not good

the shortcuts are lame

no auto complete

creating application apis with specific permission is bad, slow Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain
UL
Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"ArangoDB For MetaData"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Arango?

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Arango?

Nothing at time point. Probabaly not yet being comoatiable Gremilian? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain
UL
Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Using ArangoDB for logistics digitalisation"
4/5
What do you like best about Arango?

- query language

- support

- scalability

- innovation

- made in germany Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Arango?

- learning curve is kind of steep

- example and tutorials are there for simple stuff, but really complex queries are somewhat a challenge Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ferdinand B.
FB
Ferdinand B.
Senior IT Product Manager - Next Gen Advisor Tech
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Surprisingly versatile"
5/5
What do you like best about Arango?

When comparing ArangoDB to other vendors in the space (including ones with large Market Caps) Arango comes out as a better product with better features. Some of the built in features of AQL make it a superior product with other players in the space. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Arango?

As a smaller player in the space, it is more difficult to convince upper management to go with Arango instead of other vendors (they perceive as being better than Arango) in the space. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Verified User in Computer Software
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"ArangoDB offers a powerful and user-friendly experience, supported by a evolving community."
4.5/5
What do you like best about Arango?

What I appreciate most about ArangoDB is its versatility and performance as a graph database, making it an excellent fit for our product's needs. The managed hosting solution offered through ArangoGraph significantly simplifies operations, providing an easy-to-use and reliable service that ensures our applications run smoothly without extensive database management requirements. Additionally, the responsive and helpful customer support team enhances the overall experience, ensuring any issues or questions are promptly addressed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Arango?

ArangoDB impresses with its robust performance and managed hosting convenience. However, navigating its advanced features could be smoother with more extensive documentation. While its community is smaller compared to some other databases, growing this supportive network could enrich user resources and collaboration opportunities, enhancing the overall ArangoDB experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Research
UR
Verified User in Research
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Good experience"
4/5
What do you like best about Arango?

The fact that ArangoDB is open access and can interact with other tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Arango?

The graphical aspect in not really taken in account Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Johan S.
JS
Johan S.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Created by developers for developers"
5/5
What do you like best about Arango?

The whole team has said over and over how intuitive the Arango query language is. The threshold for learing it was extremely low and we even have frontend developers writing queries the few times they need something special, instead of coming to the backend developers asking for help to retrieve data from our SQL database.

The combination of a document and graph database suits us perfecetly, as our data has lots of connection to each other and in several levels and at the same time we need to be able to aggregate data over periods of time.

We are currently in the process of migrating all data from an SQL database to ArangoDB with the goal of completely getting rid of the SQL database and those cumbersome SQL queries.

Customer support has been quick to respond the few tickets we have had, even though the tickets have been marked with lowest priority by us when submitting the ticket. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Arango?

It was a bit of a learning curve on how data is sharded over the nodes in the cluster, which is essential to know in order to get good performance when executing queries.

While it's seldom you want to change name of a collection, that is however possible when working with a single standalone server, but it's not possible in a cluster setup.

It's not possible to set preferred service hours for maintenance (upgrades) for the clusters in their cloud service, so unless we're initiating upgrades manually they can start during our primetime. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Verified User in Computer Software
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Easy to setup and integrate"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Arango?

Instructions to setup ArangoDB Community (using docker) are clear. Integration with existing project is smooth Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Arango?

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.