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I have tried to run ArangoDB under Node.js had some little successes, but in general their claim that they have drivers for many platforms is far from reality. Also why not to release node.js binary drivers instead of pushing people to use foxx. Also simple browsable docs would be nice instead of chunked documents covering hell knows what. Finding link to their query language was a big hassle :) Also their graph traversing is still in infancy as I understand.

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I agree somewhat with the documentation part. The getting started is nice, but the gap between reading about concepts and the actual references, how to use them is a bit large at times. Best would be a reference based documentation, e.g. as in http://underscorejs.org/

I would call https://www.arangodb.org/manuals/current/UserManual.html a browsable doc (3 clicks from the main page). And a further click fires up the chapter about AQL...

I would preffer more or less the api style docs with short general examples. than a lot of unusable text.

There is a node js driver and even an integration into JugglingDB. See https://www.arangodb.org/drivers. And in the end, it's all bascially HTTP calls that you are making to query the database.

I would not call that a driver. Also all of them are 3rd party developed. as it seems by single developers. So no standartization possible. The database adoption goes as far as the capability to use it in your project. And I found that the node.js drivers in particular were outdated in npm. Had to nudge one of the developers to update npm repo. Also REST access library is called driver???

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