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ArangoDB vs SurrealDB

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by Arango

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Pricing: Community Edition free for evaluation and non-commercial use up to 100 GB; Enterprise, the managed AMP service and OEM licences are priced on request.

ArangoDB is a multi-model NoSQL database that keeps graph, document, vector and search data in one engine, self-hosted or managed by Arango in the cloud.

10 /18 features Full profile

SurrealDB

by SurrealDB

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Pricing: First Cloud instance free; Cloud Start from $0.021 an hour; Cloud Scale $0.192 per node hour, three nodes minimum; self-hosted Enterprise by quote.

SurrealDB is a multi-model database for documents, graphs, vectors and relational data, built for AI and app developers, run in its cloud or self-hosted.

11 /18 features Full profile

Feature Comparison

NoSQL Databases features side-by-side

Feature	ArangoDB 10/18 features	SurrealDB 11/18 features
Schemaless document storage Records in one collection can carry different fields with no predefined table definition or migration.	No	Yes
Secondary indexes on any field Indexes on nested fields or array elements, not only on the primary key or partition key.	Yes	Yes
Multi-document ACID transactions Writes touching several documents, rows or collections commit or roll back together.	Yes	Yes
Automatic sharding across nodes Data partitioned and rebalanced across servers by a shard key without manual resharding.	Yes	Yes
Tunable consistency per operation Read and write consistency chosen per request, from eventual to majority or strong.	No	No
Multi-region active-active writes Writes accepted in more than one geographic region with conflict handling between them.	No	No
Server-side aggregation pipelines Group, join and transform documents inside the database instead of in application code.	Yes	Yes
Change streams for downstream consumers Applications subscribe to inserts, updates and deletes as an ordered, resumable event feed.	No	Yes
Time-to-live expiry on records Documents or rows are deleted automatically once a per-record expiry timestamp passes.	Yes	No
Integrated full-text search on documents Text indexes with relevance ranking built into the database, with no separate search cluster to run.	Yes	Yes
Vector search on embedded fields Embeddings stored on documents and queried by nearest neighbor alongside ordinary filters.	Yes	Yes
Multi-model data access The same engine serves documents plus key-value, graph or wide-column access patterns.	Yes	Yes
Collection-level access roles Permissions granted per database and per collection or table to named roles.	Yes	Yes
Client-side field-level encryption Selected fields are encrypted by the driver before leaving the application and are unreadable by the server.	No	No
Continuous backup with point-in-time restore Oplog or commit-log backups let you restore a cluster to any second within the retention window.	No	No
Embedded mobile database with sync A device-side database that syncs with the server cluster for offline-first mobile apps.	No	No
Open source community edition A community edition whose source is public and which can be self-hosted without a commercial license.	Yes	Yes
Serverless on-demand capacity pricing Capacity billed per request or per operation, with no instance to size in advance.	No	No
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ArangoDB 10/18 features

Schemaless document storage: No
Secondary indexes on any field: Yes
Multi-document ACID transactions: Yes
Automatic sharding across nodes: Yes
Tunable consistency per operation: No
Multi-region active-active writes: No
Server-side aggregation pipelines: Yes
Change streams for downstream consumers: No
Time-to-live expiry on records: Yes
Integrated full-text search on documents: Yes
Vector search on embedded fields: Yes
Multi-model data access: Yes
Collection-level access roles: Yes
Client-side field-level encryption: No
Continuous backup with point-in-time restore: No
Embedded mobile database with sync: No
Open source community edition: Yes
Serverless on-demand capacity pricing: No

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SurrealDB 11/18 features

Schemaless document storage: Yes
Secondary indexes on any field: Yes
Multi-document ACID transactions: Yes
Automatic sharding across nodes: Yes
Tunable consistency per operation: No
Multi-region active-active writes: No
Server-side aggregation pipelines: Yes
Change streams for downstream consumers: Yes
Time-to-live expiry on records: No
Integrated full-text search on documents: Yes
Vector search on embedded fields: Yes
Multi-model data access: Yes
Collection-level access roles: Yes
Client-side field-level encryption: No
Continuous backup with point-in-time restore: No
Embedded mobile database with sync: No
Open source community edition: Yes
Serverless on-demand capacity pricing: No

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Pricing

ArangoDB

Community Edition free for evaluation and non-commercial use up to 100 GB; Enterprise, the managed AMP service and OEM licences are priced on request.

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SurrealDB

First Cloud instance free; Cloud Start from $0.021 an hour; Cloud Scale $0.192 per node hour, three nodes minimum; self-hosted Enterprise by quote.

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