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MongoDB vs RavenDB

April 11, 2023

MongoDB and RavenDB are both NoSQL document databases, which means that they provide the flexibility to quickly adapt your solution to the constantly changing business environment. They are both known for their speed in development, scaling, and server performance. However, some key differences have caused many RavenDB users to choose RavenDB…

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RavenDB & Serverless

March 27, 2023

In this webinar, RavenDB founder Oren Eini discusses how we can use RavenDB from a Serverless context. Learn how to consume RavenDB from Azure Functions and AWS Lambdas, and how to respond to changes in RavenDB’s documents via Serverless functions.

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RavenDB 6.0 live instance is now up & running: Come test it out!

March 21, 2023

RavenDB has the public live test instance, and we have recently upgraded that to version 6.0. That means that you can start playing around with RavenDB 6.0 directly, including giving us feedback on any issues that you find. Of particular interest, of course, is the sharding feature, it is right here: And once enabled, you can see things in more…

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ExternalFinalizer: Adding a finalizer to 3rd party objects

March 13, 2023

Let’s say that you have the following scenario, you have an object in your hands that is similar to this one: It holds some unmanaged resources, so you have to dispose it. However, this is used in the following manner: What is the problem? This object may be used concurrently. In the past, the frame was never updated, so it was safe to read…

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Leveraging Indexing for Fast Complex Queries on Heterogeneous Data

March 13, 2023

To simplify the selection of materials for installing doors and windows according to local building codes, TOAD, LLC uses RavenDB indexing to organize the data, run computations on it behind the scenes, then quickly query the extensive parts catalog whenever users enter the specs they need. What did TOAD, LLC use before RavenDB? Their system…

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Next week: Kobo’s Journey Into High Performance and Reliable Document Databases at InfoQ

March 10, 2023

Trevor Hunter from Kobo Rakuten is going to be speaking about Kobo’s usage of RavenDB in a webinar next Wednesday. When I started at Kobo, we needed to look beyond the relational and into document databases. Our initial technology choice didn’t work out for us in terms of reliability, performance, or flexibility, so we looked for something new…

Podcasts

Coffee and Open Source Conversation – Dejan Miličić

March 9, 2023

Dejan Miličić is an enthusiastic consultant and developer advocate at RavenDB with more than 20 years of experience as a professional software developer in designing, writing, and maintaining applications. Dejan is passionate about Open Source, RavenDB, Software Architecture, and Software Professionalism, supporting the Software Crafting Serbia community via workshops and meetups. He is an active […]

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How ESO Provides Reliable Tech for Emergency Workers in the Field

March 6, 2023

RavenDB provides ESO with HIPAA compliance, on/off-line functionality, and the ability to automatically respond to data events in their field device solutions for emergency responders. Devices that are equipped with their app and a server continue to work without interruption whenever offline, data integrity is maintained, and data events are…

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RavenDB Sharding Progress

March 2, 2023

RavenDB Sharding is now running as a production replication in our backend systems and we are stepping up our testing in a real-world environment. We are now also publishing nightly builds of RavenDB 6.0, including Sharding support. There are some known (minor) issues in the Studio, which we are busy fixing, but it is already possible to create…