ArangoDB Questions & Answers

ArangoDB has three types of collections – Document collections which is the regular type of collection, Edge Collection which stores connections between the vertices of the graph and System collections which stores the underscore.

MySQL is designed for tabular data while ArangoDB is designed for both tabular and non-tabular data. MySQL is highly reliable while ArangoDB gets crashed when delt with a huge chunk of data.

The main mechanism for data distribution in ArangoDB is called Sharding. Sharding is used to run a bunch of machines to run a cluster of ArangoDB instances which in combination can be regarded as a single database system.

Yes, ArangoDB is a memory database, i.e., it stores the data in mapped form and working set needs to be filled into the main memory in order to perform well and efficiently.