Chris Balnave

Chris Balnave

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Chris Balnave is a technical contributor at RavenDB, involved in knowledge sharing, community engagement, and documentation for developer enablement.

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3000x Faster Database Transactions for the World’s Largest Medical Supplier

3000x Faster Database Transactions for the World’s Largest Medical Supplier

25 October 2022

Powering the website of the world's largest provider of medical parts, simplifying DevOps, and serving their data in 1/3000th the time of their previous database. PartsSource is “The leading healthcare services online marketplace and the world's largest provider of medical parts, products, and solutions.” They’re essentially the Amazon.com of medical replacement parts, operating as a...

Caching Data & Automatic Database Caching

Caching Data & Automatic Database Caching

3 October 2022

Faster Reads with Automatic and Aggressive Database Caching What is Caching? Generally speaking, retrieving data from main memory is about 4 times faster than from a solid state drive, which in turn is about 150 times faster than from a server across the network. These values can vary a lot, but what’s certain is that...

Choosing the Right NoSQL Database Cut This SaaS Company’s Time to Market by 20%

Choosing the Right NoSQL Database Cut This SaaS Company’s Time to Market by 20%

10 August 2022

Ease of development and a better billing model led smartObjx CEO Russ McClelland to choose RavenDB over CosmosDB as his company’s NoSQL database solution. smartObjx is a SaaS company developing “cloud-based infrastructure services and software components that enable developers to build high-quality SaaS solutions faster.” The company was founded around 3 years ago, building their...

RavenDB Announces the Release of Version 5.4, Including Integration Features for Kafka and RabbitMQ

RavenDB Announces the Release of Version 5.4, Including Integration Features for Kafka and RabbitMQ

1 August 2022

Hadera, Israel -August 1, 2022 - RavenDB, the NoSQL Document Database used by Fortune 500 companies around the world, today announces a significant update to their software with the release of version 5.4. New Capabilities RavenDB can now seamlessly integrate with existing ecosystems, pushing events into Kafka topics, and talking to the RabbitMQ message broker....

Beatman’s Decade of Success with RavenDB

Beatman’s Decade of Success with RavenDB

4 July 2022

One of our oldest customers, Beatman is a software development company that‘s been using RavenDB as its database of choice for the last decade. RavenDB’s performance, DevOps simplicity, and wide range of features have helped them take countless high-quality software products to market faster than their competitors could dream of. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL06U-lNEzg&list=PLyN48dYowfwAfbDHPg-Xo_-u4EDXZQtNg&index=2 Beatman is a software...

Fastest Database Wins for IoT Bridge

Fastest Database Wins for IoT Bridge

25 May 2022

From 26 database transactions per second to 120,000 - switching from MongoDB to RavenDB helped IoT Bridge meet the performance expectations of their customers, and themselves. IoT Bridge is an IoT software system developed by a company of the same name. Customers can push data from their IoT devices into the platform, where they can...

RavenDB’s OLAP ETL Opens the Door to Business Intelligence

RavenDB’s OLAP ETL Opens the Door to Business Intelligence

Unfortunately, a single database can’t be all things at all times. A system optimized for transactions is fundamentally different from one optimized for queries – from the way the data is stored to the manner in which it’s processed. This necessitates the existence of two different types of data processing tools. OLTP (OnLine Transactional Processing)...

Enhancing Database Performance and Simplifying DevOps

Enhancing Database Performance and Simplifying DevOps

14 April 2022

Win-Tech takes advantage of RavenDB's managed cloud option and document data model to reduce complexity, while advanced database indexing and aggressive caching raise performance to the next level. Win-Tech is the IT-focused subsidiary of a large manufacturing company, for which they are developing a task management web app called Todolo. The database powering Todolo is...

Full-Text Search Fundamentals in RavenDB

Full-Text Search Fundamentals in RavenDB

15 March 2022

When it comes to full-text search, years of googling have conditioned us to expect instant, accurate results for any query we can come up with. Unfortunately, creating a powerful and effective search engine is really hard. While most databases offer some kind of search functionality it's usually bare bones, and the issues of speed and...

RavenDB Database Security Methods

RavenDB Database Security Methods

9 March 2022

How does RavenDB succeed in protecting your database both in transit and at rest? With cybercrime estimated to have cost the global economy over one trillion USD in 2020, database security has never been more relevant.  To properly secure a database, data must be protected both in transit between server and node, and at rest...

RavenDB Compared to Known NoSQL Built-in Full-text Search Databases

RavenDB Compared to Known NoSQL Built-in Full-text Search Databases

6 March 2022

The main differences and what makes RavenDB hard to beat. RavenDB is a NoSQL database with built-in full-text search functionality – both on the cloud, and on-premise – at no extra cost. That sounds great, but how does it compare to other database systems on the market? We need some context. Let’s start with a...

A Fully ACID NoSQL Database System

A Fully ACID NoSQL Database System

3 March 2022

RavenDB is an ACID database that matches its counterpart’s performance on their non-ACID transactions and surpasses them when ACIDity is required. RavenDB is a fully ACID NoSQL database system. While ACID compliance in NoSQL databases is generally synonymous with reduced performance, RavenDB is unique in that it suffers from no such penalty. The way it...

NoSQL Database Reviews Forged RavenDB

NoSQL Database Reviews Forged RavenDB

22 November 2021

How User Feedback Helped RavenDB Become the Premier NoSQL Database System RavenDB has been around for a little over a decade, providing a top-of-the-line NoSQL database service to thousands of customers, including fortune 500 companies like Toyota and Verizon. But it hasn’t always been smooth sailing. Like any other software, RavenDB has had its growing...

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