--- 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: '2026-07-12' 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. Best thing about OrientDB that I liked that it is a multipurpose NoSQL database. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2016 **What do you like best about OrientDB?** Best thing about OrientDB that I liked that it is a multipurpose NoSQL database. Second thing that I liked is that it is made in Java programming language. Being a pro fan of Java I find it exciting to use OrientDB. **What do you dislike about OrientDB?** There are few drawbacks in OrientDB. First one that I shoud mention is the performance as compared to other rival NoSQL database solutions. I think guys at OrientDB is constantly working on that. Second thing is the community. Size of the OrientDB community is small and I find it hard to find some solutions online. **What problems is OrientDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1 : NoSQL database requirements. ### 2. Easy to use. Expecting more concurrent writing support **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 22, 2016 **What do you like best about OrientDB?** 1. Easy to use 2. Read performance is good **What do you dislike about OrientDB?** 1. Stability of the product after a GA release 2. More concurrency needed in writing 3. Consistency in Read performance timings preferred **What problems is OrientDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is a event driven network management application in which lot of read transactions are happening per minute. Also, one transaction will read hundreds of rows from multiple tables. ### 3. Powerful graph database **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 22, 2016 **What do you like best about OrientDB?** Having a graph db with ability to use SQL. The db has some good features, can improve even more with time. **What do you dislike about OrientDB?** Some bugs, but they are getting fixed constantly **What problems is OrientDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Orient for personal testing purpose ### 4. Graph/Document database with good tools and reasonable support **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 04, 2016 **What do you like best about OrientDB?** The database is easy to install and integrate with existing architectures since it supports both JDBC, a SQL-like query language, and strong tools that run in the web browser and provide visual indicators of how the database is performing. **What do you dislike about OrientDB?** Documentation tends to be updated slower than one would expect and there isn't enough emphasis on securing the installation in the documentation. Much of the documentation assumes that you're installing in a standalone mode and not in its clustered modes (which work very well). **Recommendations to others considering OrientDB:** You need to perform a proof of concept with orientdb from the perspective of a graph database and not try to turn it into a relational database with graph features. If you do that, you will not find that it meets your criteria. Since many relationships are well represented with graphs and easily traversed with graph queries - you will need to make sure that you go into the project with the right mindset or you will find that you are carrying RDBMS baggage into the graphical world. You may find that traditional DBAs have a hard time adopting the solution since it is very different from what they are accustomed to. **What problems is OrientDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** A lot of our data requirements are based upon graphical relationships and they need to be traversed in a reasonable amount of time. Arithmetically there are some other databases that have better performance, but not all of them are as well supported or offer the tool chain that Orient provides. ### 5. Very good ideas, excellent enterprise support, but bad documentation. **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 22, 2016 **What do you like best about OrientDB?** well, the coloured balls are very pretty, but I think that the enterprise support is even better **What do you dislike about OrientDB?** they have a pretty bad official documentation **What problems is OrientDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** we use orient for our web based application. ### 6. An Good Graph DB which supports the sql queries which has given an easy access **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** satheesh m. | Technical Lead, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2016 **What do you like best about OrientDB?** The SQL Queries The Both OOD and graph in single DB **What do you dislike about OrientDB?** There is an bit of slow processing while using huge data .. and getting the graphical tree. **What problems is OrientDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Giving an ability to teh customer to get the insight of what is happening in . ### 7. OrientDb to solve high availability problem **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 22, 2016 **What do you like best about OrientDB?** I liked the in memory feature which i waslooking for. Other than that i was happy with the way i could easily save persist the data into disk. **What do you dislike about OrientDB?** What i did not like was it had heavy load on memory. For that i needed to split files and open db file by closing currently opened. **What problems is OrientDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using this for high availability problem. I am working on a log management tool. To solve the problem of high availability, i am using this db. ### 8. 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 ### 9. I reviewed this product against neo4j to attempt to solve a shortest path problem. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 04, 2016 **What do you like best about OrientDB?** The SQL like queries to interact with Graphs. **What do you dislike about OrientDB?** The dashboard could use some work. There felt like there were some bugs in the dashboard javascript. Id much prefer an installable application such as SSMS then rely on the web browser dashboard. **What problems is OrientDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** We evaluated orientdb to solve a shortest path problem between two nodes. ### 10. Research of graph & document databases thesis **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2016 **What do you like best about OrientDB?** It was my first contact with a database that implements a graph model **What do you dislike about OrientDB?** The documentation at that time was not quite sufficient, I needed to dig into code to find sometimes / clear things up. **What problems is OrientDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was conducting research on databases used for big data analysis. The benefits in this database mainly comes from it's graph model. ## 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?page=2§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-15+01%3A32%3A28+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=3c7908ba-dc22-4ed1-8dda-17fbb63f579c&secure%5Btoken%5D=971a5997841e07fe01b37f2a463a5889253665e56447c190fbbfb611058569e8&format=llm_user) ## OrientDB Features **Data Management** - Data Model - Data Types **Data Management** - Data Model - Data Types - Built - In Search - Event Triggers **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 **Availability** - Auto Sharding - Auto Recovery **Performance ** - Integrated Cache **Performance** - Query Optimization **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 **Support** - Multi-Model - BI Connectors - Operating Systems **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 (130 reviews)