Ideal Data Platform for Startups

Startups often have limited resources and fast, unpredictable growth so they require software solutions that are effective, flexible, and efficient. RavenDB is a powerful NoSQL database that is designed with startups in mind. This article will explore some of the key reasons why RavenDB is a great choice for startups.

Total Cost of Ownership

Startups must be mindful of their spending, especially in the early stages of their growth. RavenDB is a high-performance and cost-effective solution that helps startups save money while still providing a powerful and reliable database. RavenDB provides production-level performance even on low-cost hardware. RavenDB is safe-by-default and is designed to be self-managed, which means that startups don’t need to hire a dedicated database administrator. It also has various cost-reducing and performance-increasing features like batching and default client-side cache, which can improve application performance and reduce the load on the database.

Reliable and Safe

RavenDB has extremely fast high availability.  Your clients won’t feel any downtime if a server/node goes offline because the other nodes instantly pick up its workload. RavenDB has default ACID transactions on the preferred node, which means that startups can be confident that their data is consistent and reliable. RavenDB Cloud is secured by default and on-premise servers only take a few minutes to set up industry-standard security, encryption, and ongoing backups.

Agility/Responsiveness to Customers’ Requests

Startups need to be agile and responsive to their customers’ needs. RavenDB makes it easy to quickly develop and deploy new features and updates. RavenDB’s document-based multi-model approach makes it easy to store and retrieve any kind of data (including unstructured) while its indexes organize the data for efficient queries. This means that startups can quickly create new features and respond to customer requests.

Microservices Oriented

Startups often need to develop clean, microservices-oriented architectures to support their growing applications. RavenDB is ideal for microservices, making it easy to create a distributed architecture that scales with the needs of the business. RavenDB offers native ongoing features like Data Subscriptions for data event-based communication between services and automation. It also offers various ongoing ETL processes to transform raw data on its way to a microservice. These ETL integrations include Kafka, SQL, RabbitMQ, and more. RavenDB also includes a built-in distributed cache, which can improve application performance and reduce the load on the database.

Scaling

When startups are ready to grow, RavenDB can scale their infrastructure in minutes. RavenDB is designed to be horizontally scalable, which means that startups can add more nodes to their cluster to handle increased traffic and workload. When you’re ready to launch in another region, you can intuitively copy your infrastructure and sync your data on both continents with External or Hub/Sink replication. RavenDB also includes automatic sharding, which means that data can be distributed across multiple nodes for improved performance and reliability.

Easy to Learn and Use

Startups often have limited resources for training and education. RavenDB is designed to be easy to learn and use, which means that startups can quickly get up to speed and start using the database to power their applications. RavenDB includes a comprehensive documentation library, as well as a range of tutorials, courses, and videos that make it easy to learn how to use the database.

Fully Featured

Startups need a database that is both powerful and feature-rich. RavenDB includes a range of features that make it an ideal choice for startups. Some of these features include:

• Multi-model database: RavenDB supports multiple data models, including key-value, document, time-series, and more.
• Powerful queries: RavenDB includes a powerful full-text search engine that makes it easy to find data within the database. Its indexes organize data and provide much faster complex queries than relational databases do. You can also define various computations in the indexing stage to lighten queries.
• Spatial queries: RavenDB includes support for spatial queries, making it easy to perform location-based searches.
• Change tracking: RavenDB includes built-in change tracking, which means that startups can track changes to their data over time.
• Ongoing ETL options, integrations, and Data Subscriptions for data event-based automation.

Try it for free

Startups need a reliable and efficient database to power their applications. We promise that trying RavenDB will be worth your effort. With its low total cost of ownership, agility, and responsiveness to customer requests, reliability, microservices orientation, scalability, ease of use, and rich feature set, RavenDB is an ideal database for startups looking to take off. Whether you’re building a new application from scratch or looking to integrate or migrate from an existing database, RavenDB can provide the performance, scalability, and reliability you need to succeed.

Author

Shahar Erez