ArangoDB vs pg_petgraph

ArangoDB is a multiple database; pg_petgraph is a other database. ArangoDB (2012-03, BUSL-1.1, C++) ranks #2 this month; pg_petgraph (2026-07, MIT, Rust) is not ranked.

Attribute ArangoDB #2 = Leader pg_petgraph —
At a glance
Rank #2— Not ranked
Score 76.7—
GitHub stars 14.3k2
Popularity 89.4—
Activity 73.9—
Community 61.2—
Research 82.8—
Fundamentals
Description A multi-model database supporting graphs, key-value pairs, and documents in a unified JSON-based data model. Offers both an in-memory storage engine and a RocksDB-based engine for larger datasets.A PostgreSQL extension that exposes graph algorithms as plain SQL functions. Each function takes arrays of source and target node ids and returns a table, covering PageRank, betweenness, closeness and eigenvector centrality, strongly and weakly connected components, Louvain community detection, Dijkstra, topological sort and cycle detection.
Vendor ArangoDB Incalitrack
Model MultipleOther
Kind databaseextension
Category EnterpriseEmerging
First released 2012-032026-07
Status activeactive
License BUSL-1.1MIT
Written in C++Rust
Query languages AQLSQL
gdotv support nono

Feature scores — not surveyed for pg_petgraph

Feature ArangoDBpg_petgraph
Community & Business
Active development ✓—
Commercial support ✓—
Live community 0.5—
Open Source ✓—
Pricing ·—
Trendiness 0.25—
Deployment
Containerization ✓—
Work as dedicated instance ✓—
Work as embedded ·—
Testing in-memory version ✓—
Platform
Operating on Linux ✓—
Operating on Windows ✓—
SaaS offering ·—
Operations
Automatic updates ·—
Client side caching ·—
Data versioning support ·—
Live backups ✓—
Distribution
Cluster Re-balancing ✓—
Data Distribution ✓—
High-Availability ✓—
Query Distribution ✓—
Replication support ✓—
Developer Experience
Data types defined ✓—
Logging/Auditing ✓—
Object-Graph Mapper ✓—
Reactive programming ·—
Documentation up-to-date ✓—
Binary protocol ✓—
CLI ✓—
GUI ✓—
Data Model
Multi-database ✓—
Graph-native data ·—
REST API ✓—
Query Language 0.5—
Transactions
Granular locking ·—
Multiple isolation levels ·—
Read committed transaction ·—
Transaction support ✓—
Schema & Security
Constraints ✓—
Schema support 0.5—
Secondary indexes ✓—
Server side procedures 0.5—
Triggers ·—
Authentication ✓—
Authorization 0.5—
Data encryption ✓—