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Hi satvikchoudhary! It's a good question. Obviously I know of ArangoDB, but I don't know it well enough to comment on the main differences, so I'll focus on what SurrealDB is aiming to achieve instead. SurrealDB is aiming to be at the intersection of relational, document, and graph databases, whilst still remaining simple to use with an SQL-like query language, for developers coming from the relational database side. We are only at the beginning of the journey, but SurrealDB is designed to be run embedded, or in the cloud, with the ability to query it directly from a client application or from a web browser (and only access the data that you're allowed to see). With our native client libraries (coming soon), SurrealDB will be able to be embedded within Node.js, WebAssembly, Python, C, and PHP applications, in addition to running as a server. We wanted to create a database that people didn't have to manage, so they could focus on building applications, not the infrastructure. We wanted users to be able to use schema-less and schema-full data patterns effortlessly, a database to operate like a relational database (without the JOINs), but with the same functionality as the best document and graph databases. And with security and access permissions to be handled right within the database itself. We wanted users to be able to build modern real-time applications effortlessly - right from Chrome, Edge, or Safari. No more complicated backends. I'm not sure how all of this compares to ArangoDB, but happy to learn! |