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Discussion on: Firestore is Stunted, So... What is the Perfect Database in 2022?

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Jonathan Gamble

I don’t think all Graph databases have that problem and can index differently. My issue with Arrangodb, like Tigergraph, is the price. Need to see examples to compare. Thanks for info.

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Brian McBride

Well, it is open source with the Apache v2 license.
github.com/arangodb/arangodb

Similar to how MongoDB worked, they make money on the enterprise extras that are probably necessary for large scale deployments. However, you can roll a cluster or a single server on some compute. They also have Oasis, which is like Atlas.

All that said, I do like Firestore's pay as you grow model and GCP has a great free tier for prototyping. Most databases, if you still want performance, requires a minimum buy-in regardless of use. Sometimes the difference of a few hundred a month can pause experimental projects. I really hope Google does some nice updates to Firestore.