OrientDB is a graph database?

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I am trying to understand how OrientDB can be a graph and a document database at the same time.

How a document is persisted? It appears to be different compared with ArangoDB, when everything is a document.

OrientDB is a graph database that supports documents? The documents are graph nodes?

Thanks.

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Orientdb graphs work on top of the documents. http://orientdb.com/docs/2.0/orientdb.wiki/Choosing-between-Graph-or-Document-API.html

(So one would say orientdb is a document db which supports graphs.)

Therefore documents are much faster when accessing.

With graphs you can have edges (bi directional) while in documents you only have links.