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You have some goos points there that I cannot deny. I just know ArangoDB because they were advertising their project on German dev meetups when it was very youn
by cookiengineer 3y ago
You have some goos points there that I cannot deny. I just know ArangoDB because they were advertising their project on German dev meetups when it was very young as an alternative to all the NoSQL hyped databases that turned out to have some serious limitations.
Their market seems to be the multi-model database market, where you also can run queries on the database without needing hacky "documents as views". They are also a somewhat alternative to neo4j, so I guess the graph database purpose is also there.
Whether or not they can be scaled on the same level, like you implied, especially with the necessary tooling for replication, synchronization and balancing ... is a whole other question.
Maybe someone that uses ArangoDB in production can chime in?
- rom99 3y agoWe're using it in production, both their cloud-hosted offering and for our on-prem software products. Massive scale isn't really a requirement for us but the multi-model capabilities are a winner for our use cases - being able to mix graph and relational-style queries in the same query language. A problem for us is the Enterprise licensing is implemented such that our on-prem customers would have to manually update a license string once a year, which is a PITA and why we have previously been using Community edition despite paying for Enterprise (mostly for the support contract).