--- title: OrientDB Reviews meta_title: 'OrientDB Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 60 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how OrientDB works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 3.9 review_count: 60 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-09' parent_category: name: IT Infrastructure url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-infrastructure --- # OrientDB Reviews **Vendor:** SAP **Category:** [Graph Databases](https://www.g2.com/categories/graph-databases) **Average Rating:** 3.9/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 60 ## About OrientDB OrientDB is the first Multi-Model Distributed DBMS with a True Graph Engine. Multi-Model means 2nd generation NoSQL able to manage complex domain with incredible performance. OrientDB manages relationships without using JOINs, but rather direct pointers. This allows to have constant performance on traversing relationships, no matter the database size. ## OrientDB Reviews ### 1. A great experience with a long journey **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michiel C. | NodeJS Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2020 **What do you like best about OrientDB?** The GUI of orientDB is very practical and user-friendly, it is comparable to other competitors their UI and allows of easy management of indexes, relations and nodes. **What do you dislike about OrientDB?** The small community, lack of professional tools and performance. Their is no easy way to manage the community version of OrientDB and the enterprise edition is a big step us in price. Great ways to resolve this would be scalable cloud offerings which allow you to test OrientDB in a managed fashion to later on decide for yourself if the step to the Enterprise edition is necessary for yourself. **Recommendations to others considering OrientDB:** Take a good look at other GraphDB solutions, Neo4J is a bigger player and great reasons for this are the more complete toolset and larger amount of use case/community. **What problems is OrientDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** a social networking feature to connect the users and find relations using many hops between them. ### 2. OrientDB - as a Software Developer FMPOV **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2020 **What do you like best about OrientDB?** Queries are SQL and Java based Achieving complex logic's visualization of data able to index the records, vertex as well as edges **What do you dislike about OrientDB?** Worst Studio / IDE No proper documentation, As a dump increases it's hard to get results, its misery while working through large data, RAM utilization, No best practices, if query having issues, exception will not throw specific location, **What problems is OrientDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** As we handling numerous classes / vertex and unstructured data, we can able to connect those data initially and able to see the connectivity through traversing. Its hard to manipulate and query unstructured data in Relational Database. its a good choice for business to have more options in community edition compared to other Graph databases but its hard for developer. Need to come up with work a rounds for slowness issue. ### 3. Performance issues and lots of defects **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Asjad S. | Associate Architect, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2020 **What do you like best about OrientDB?** It is multi model and supports graph queries. **What do you dislike about OrientDB?** No cloud managed service included. Performance issues. To many open defects. **What problems is OrientDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was building a product that required and document and a Graph database. OrientDb seemed like a good database with that supported both. ### 4. Working with pain **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alexander P. | First Level Software Engineer, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 22, 2016 **What do you like best about OrientDB?** The recommendation engine my colleagues and I coded using OrientDB is actually working in this very moment. In the end, it turned out to be a solution for us. The studio it provides is also quite useful and pretty, especially the graph part of it. And it's a relatively cheap solution after all. **What do you dislike about OrientDB?** Bad documentation. New versions breaking code written with old version. The SQL-like syntax is only useful for basic queries, which a complicated project will not limit to. Using gremlin is painfully difficult. **Recommendations to others considering OrientDB:** If you can afford Neo4j, choose Neo4j. If you are ready to have a bit of headache and not a lot of money to spend, OrientDB will probably do the job after all. **What problems is OrientDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** The business problem I was solving was to create a recommendation engine on top of a graph database and make fast queries of type "start from this vertex, give me all its neighbors by this edge and their neighbors by that edge and sum the weight along the edges". And do it fast. ### 5. Interesting but not the easiest experience **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Media Production | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2016 **What do you like best about OrientDB?** Its versitility, the 'it fits whatever data you have' attitude. **What do you dislike about OrientDB?** I came to OrientDB to try to do something that Neo4J could not do. Grantedm I was trying something most in this community might find really stupid, trying to connect edges to edges, but it fitted my use case. Sadly I also couldn't get OrientDB to do it, it took me a lot of experimenting though to find out since the Docs are barebones, hard to navigate and hard to understand and the error reporting is also not that clear, if there even are error messages. **What problems is OrientDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** None ## OrientDB Discussions - [What is multi-model database service?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-multi-model-database-service) - [Is OrientDB a native graph database?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-orientdb-a-native-graph-database) - [What type of database is OrientDB?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-type-of-database-is-orientdb) - [How OrientDB works?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-orientdb-works) - [View OrientDB pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/orientdb/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=2§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-12+11%3A03%3A04+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=a66a26a5-24e4-4758-8cd1-720c67b64d69&secure%5Btoken%5D=a9cc99b81d435b2044b83d011e9c60d4348625d5b62b87ba888ad559f7d04db2&format=llm_user) ## OrientDB Features **Data Management** - Data Model - Data Types **Data Management** - Data Model - Data Types - Built - In Search - Event Triggers - Semantic Search **Data Management** - Data Model - Data Types - Built - In Search - Event Triggers - Query Language **Availability** - Auto Sharding - Auto Recovery - Data Replication **Availability** - Auto Sharding - Auto Recovery - Data Replication - Backup and Recovery - Real-Time Data **Availability** - Auto Sharding - Auto Recovery **Performance ** - Integrated Cache **Performance** - Query Optimization - Ad hoc Query **Performance** - Query Optimization **Security** - Role-Based Authorization - Authentication - Audit Logs - Encryption **Security** - Role-Based Authorization - Authentication - Audit Logs - Encryption **Security** - Role-Based Authorization - Authentication - Audit Logs - Encryption **Support** - Multi-Model - Operating Systems **Support** - Multi-Model - Operating Systems - BI Connectors - Data Connectors **Support** - Multi-Model - BI Connectors - Operating Systems **Additional Functionality** - Database Conversion - Monitoring - Activity Dashboard - Data Extraction - Reporting/Analytics - Automatic Backup - Real-Time Monitoring - Audit Management - Data Visualization - Ad hoc Reporting - Compliance Management - Indexing - Search/Filter - Alerts/Notifications - Data Verification - Performance Testing - Data Capture and Transfer - Security Auditing - Access Controls/Permissions - Role-Based Permissions - Data Mapping - Data Retrieval - AI Copilot - Third-Party Integrations - Generative AI - Configuration Management - Audit Trail - For NoSQL Databases - Data Import/Export - Data Migration - Data Synchronization - API - Serverless Accessibility - Multiple Data Sources **Database Features** - Storage - Availability - Stability - Scalability - Security - Data Manipulation - Query Language ## Top OrientDB Alternatives - [Arango](https://www.g2.com/products/arango/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (115 reviews) - [Azure Cosmos DB](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-cosmos-db/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (59 reviews) - [Redis Software](https://www.g2.com/products/redis-software/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (132 reviews)