[3] ArangoDB is a NoSQL database system[4] but AQL is similar in many ways to SQL,[5] it uses RocksDB as a storage engine.

[11] In January 2017 ArangoDB raised a seed round investment of 4.2 million Euros led by Target Partners.

In March 2019 ArangoDB raised 10 million dollars in series A funding[12] led by Bow Capital.

In October 2021 ArangoDB raised 27.8 million dollars in series B funding led by Iris Capital.

It supports CRUD operations for both documents (nodes) and edges, but it is not a data definition language (DDL).