ArangoDB VS CouchDB

Compare ArangoDB vs CouchDB and see what are their differences.

ArangoDB

🥑 ArangoDB is a native multi-model database with flexible data models for documents, graphs, and key-values. Build high performance applications using a convenient SQL-like query language or JavaScript extensions. (by arangodb)

CouchDB

Seamless multi-master syncing database with an intuitive HTTP/JSON API, designed for reliability (by apache)
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ArangoDB CouchDB
17 27
13,312 5,979
0.5% 0.9%
9.9 9.6
6 days ago 11 days ago
C++ Erlang
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

ArangoDB

Posts with mentions or reviews of ArangoDB. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-11.
  • Ask HN: When is pure functional programming beneficial?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jul 2023
    ... or working in an environment or on a problem for which functional patterns apply.

    Suppose you are writing a "CRUD" app that writes to a relational database, how do you apply functional programming to that? The whole point of an application like that is that it makes side effects.

    In some cases you can break those problems down into functional pieces. Consider Python drivers for a product like

    https://www.arangodb.com/

    One major problem is that you want drivers that work synchronously and asynchronously, the structure of the average api call is something like

       def query(parameters):
  • Graph Databases vs Relational Databases: What and why?
    6 projects | dev.to | 29 Mar 2023
    First, you need to choose a specific graph database platform to work with, such as Neo4j, OrientDB, JanusGraph, Arangodb or Amazon Neptune. Once you have selected a platform, you can then start working with graph data using the platform's query language.
  • PRQL a simple, powerful, pipelined SQL replacement
    19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Dec 2022
    Some databases like ArangoDB (https://www.arangodb.com/) allow you to use Javascript instead of SQL.

    However, using a type-unsafe, turing-complete language introduces type unsafety and turing-complete problems to the query layer; the usual problems we know and love, such as infinite loops, runtime type errors, exceptions, and the like.

    Personally, I'm looking forward to a WASM runtime for databases -- so we can run webassembly on the database. This COULD be carefully designed to be statically checked and, possibly, make it really hard to write runaway loops.

  • Ask HN: Why are we so fragmented in databases options?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Oct 2022
    Personally my favorite db for pet projects is

    https://www.arangodb.com/

    I think you hear very little about it because ADB users see it as a "secret weapon" to crush their competitors with. I've done large ontology work (MESH and other health ontologies) and IoT work (keep several years of sensor readings for sensors in my house) and workflow systems (select interesting HN articles or jobs I want to apply to) and it has never let me down. I haven't run a real instance serving customers in the cloud though.

    For the last few years every eng manager I have worked with has been a fan of

    https://www.postgresql.org/

    In the early 2000s I thought it overpromised and underdelivered and called it CrashGreSlow but after MySQL got bought by Oracle the pgsql team has worked hard to improve it I think it is great today. It supports all kinds of advanced features such as stored procs, full-text search, JSON equivalent fields, etc.

  • System Design: The complete course
    31 projects | dev.to | 16 Aug 2022
    For mutual friends, we can build a social graph for every user. Each node in the graph will represent a user and a directional edge will represent followers and followees. After that, we can traverse the followers of a user to find and suggest a mutual friend. This would require a graph database such as Neo4j and ArangoDB.
  • Database of Databases
    6 projects | dev.to | 23 Jun 2022
    ArangoDB
  • Using graphQL+gRPC+Golang to Create a Bike Rental Microservices, with persistence on ArangoDB.
    4 projects | dev.to | 2 Jun 2022
    This a NOSQL database built for high availability and high scalability, a perfect fit for implementing persistence in microservices. ArangoDB is an open source native multi-model database that supports graph, document and key-value data models allowing users to freely combine all data models in a single query. Dive deeper into this database and its features here.
  • Which database would be a great choice for our game?
    2 projects | /r/Firebase | 11 May 2022
    Finally, while it is not in the GCP stack, there is a pretty cool graph database https://www.arangodb.com/ . You can use their Oasis and deploy into GCP though. Still, if you were to model a lot of relations between all your trivia information, then a graph database like this could unlock some interesting possibilities.
  • Building a GraphQL API on AWS with Amazon Neptune Graph Database and CDK
    3 projects | dev.to | 1 Apr 2021
    As an AWS person, I became really interested in how I may take advantage of a an AppSync GraphQL API backed by a graph database. There are many great options to choose from, including things like Neo4j and ArangoDB which I hope to also try out sometime soon, but for this build I chose to use Amazon Neptune.
  • IndraDB: A graph database written in rust
    2 projects | /r/rust | 2 Feb 2021
    Will it perform better than ArangoDB, which outperforms Neo4j?

CouchDB

Posts with mentions or reviews of CouchDB. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-06.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ArangoDB and CouchDB you can also consider the following projects:

Riak - Riak is a decentralized datastore from Basho Technologies.

LevelDB - LevelDB is a fast key-value storage library written at Google that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values.

RethinkDB - The open-source database for the realtime web.

MongoDB - The MongoDB Database

Neo4j - Graphs for Everyone

indradb - A graph database written in rust

skytable - Skytable is a modern scalable NoSQL database with BlueQL, designed for performance, scalability and flexibility. Skytable gives you spaces, models, data types, complex collections and more to build powerful experiences

Redis - Redis is an in-memory database that persists on disk. The data model is key-value, but many different kind of values are supported: Strings, Lists, Sets, Sorted Sets, Hashes, Streams, HyperLogLogs, Bitmaps.

RavenDB - ACID Document Database

Apache Cassandra - Mirror of Apache Cassandra