Deployment modes

An overview of different deployment modes available for ArangoDB

ArangoDB supports many resilient deployment modes to meet the exact needs of your project.

Single Instance

A Single Instance deployment is the most simple way to get started. Unlike other setups, which require some specific procedures, deploying a stand-alone instance is straightforward and can be started manually or by using the ArangoDB Starter tool.

Active Failover

Active Failover deployments use ArangoDB’s multi-node technology to provide high availability for smaller projects with fast asynchronous replication from the leading node to multiple replicas. If the leader fails, then a replicant takes over seamlessly.

Cluster

Cluster deployments are designed for large scale operations and analytics, allowing you to scale elastically with your applications and data models. ArangoDB’s synchronously-replicating cluster technology runs on premises, on Kubernetes, and in the cloud on ArangoGraph - ArangoDB’s fully managed service.

Clustering ArangoDB not only delivers better performance and capacity improvements, but it also provides resilience through replication and automatic failover. You can deploy systems that dynamically scale up and down according to demand.

Datacenter-to-Datacenter

With ArangoDB’s Datacenter-to-Datacenter support, you can replicate your data to any other datacenter. The leading datacenter asynchronously replicates to any number of following datacenters for optimal write performance.