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Say Hi to ArangoDB Oasis: A Fully-Managed Multi-Model Database Service

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Re: Say Hi to ArangoDB Oasis: A Fully-Managed Multi-Model Database Service

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Post by janemanos »

homerjam wrote: post #3

This is really exciting. All I'd like now is Prisma integration, and pricing info : )

Thanks :) Jan from ArangoDB here

You can see the exact pricing for the deployment configuration you desire within Oasis when you create a deployment. In general, the actual price for your deployment depends on the cloud provider, amount of main memory & storage you selected. The pricing is usage based, so if you only need a deployment for one hour, you only pay for that hour. Hope this helps a bit at least.

Re: Say Hi to ArangoDB Oasis: A Fully-Managed Multi-Model Database Service

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Post by CJefferson »

While I've found running ArangoDB to be fairly painless, it's always nice to have a managed service, and I haven't had to scale past what comfortable fits on a single computer myself. Having Arango keeping an eye on updates, and managing scaling and backups would certainly make me happy if I had a pile of data a business relied on (I'm just using Arango for storing academic data, and if it was lost it wouldn't be the end of the world, just irritating).

It would be nice if it was easier to see pricing, but the fact I looked for that first probably suggests I'm not the type of person this is aimed at!

Re: Say Hi to ArangoDB Oasis: A Fully-Managed Multi-Model Database Service

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Post by neunhoef »

Ours90 wrote: post #6

Great news, guys! How does this compare to MongoDB Atlas? Can anybody tell me if it is less expensive or more expensive?

(ArangoDB developer here) MongoDB is a document store, ArangoDB is multi-model, so you have graphs and key/value and search as a additional benefits. The query language AQL is also a huge plus. Price comparisons are always hard, but for similar deployments Oasis will be a bit cheaper. One really has to look at the details here, in particular with respect to sharding and resilience.

Re: Say Hi to ArangoDB Oasis: A Fully-Managed Multi-Model Database Service

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Post by neunhoef »

CJefferson wrote: post #5

While I've found running ArangoDB to be fairly painless, it's always nice to have a managed service, and I haven't had to scale past what comfortable fits on a single computer myself. Having Arango keeping an eye on updates, and managing scaling and backups would certainly make me happy if I had a pile of data a business relied on (I'm just using Arango for storing academic data, and if it was lost it wouldn't be the…

In academia the cost for running computers and software deployments is usually greatly underestimated (I speak from experience). If you are a for-profit company and compute the full economic costs of running a database deployment including training, devops, alerting, 24/7 maintenance, upgrades, backups and everything you easily come to some $60000 per year.

Managed services can beat this price by a huge margin, although they seem expensive at first glance.

Re: Say Hi to ArangoDB Oasis: A Fully-Managed Multi-Model Database Service

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Post by ifcologne »

Ours90 wrote: post #6

Great news, guys! How does this compare to MongoDB Atlas? Can anybody tell me if it is less expensive or more expensive?

Ingo from ArangoDB here:

If you need to scale-out, the ArangoDB packages are more affordable then MongoDB Atlas, as you don't need to spin-up a whole 3 node replica-set to add another shard to your cluster. The smaller instances are cheaper in Atlas, here you benefit from the established cloud service, which can negotiate better conditions with the large cloud providers. However, we will pass on lower cloud costs to customers, so there is hope that we will move closer over time. But, I don't see ArangoDB in direct competition with smaller, pure document-use cases. Most users need the multi-model capabilities and use graphs in combination with document operations.

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