[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!

[neunhoef]

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.