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Webinar Recording: Modeling Relationships and Hierarchies in a Document Database

August 26, 2022

Modeling relationships and hierarchies is a fundamental topic taught in university – for relational databases. Document databases are quite different, and our approach to such modeling should be different as well. So how do we do…

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ACID Database for Securely Storing Bulk Data

August 25, 2022

A single RavenDB server powering 150 organizations – how Sentinel uses RavenDB’s ACIDity and features like backup-restore to securely store bulk data. While RavenDB is known for its advanced clustering capabilities, Sentinel’s experience shows that even a single RavenDB server is reliable enough to serve over a hundred organizations for…

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Deploying RavenDB to the Edge

August 19, 2022

RavenDB CEO Oren Eini shows how to use RavenDB as part of your edge computing strategy. He explains how to run multiple instances in a “shared nothing” architecture, how to connect these disparate instances into a unified system, and how to deploy, operate, and license RavenDB in such an environment.

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Managing the most dangerous constructor ever

August 17, 2022

The design of the X509Certificate2 is badly broken in terms of safety. If you load a certificate from the disk or a byte buffer, it will go ahead and create a file on the disk behind the scene. If you’ll dispose the instance, the file will be removed. However, if you don’t explicitly dispose the instance, that is too bad. The file remains. A…

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re: How Discord supercharges network disks for extreme low latency

August 16, 2022

I read this blog post from Discord, which presents a really interesting approach to a problem that they ran into. Basically, in the cloud you have the choice between fast and ephemeral disks and persistent (and much slower) disks. Technically speaking you can try to get really fast persistent disks, but those are freaking expensive. Ultra disks on…

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Importing the Stack Overflow dataset into RavenDB

August 15, 2022

Around 2017 we needed to test RavenDB with realistic datasets. That was the time that we were working hard on the 4.0 release, and we wanted to have some common dataset that was production quality (for all the benefits and complications that this brings) to play with. A serious issue was that we needed that dataset to also be public, because we…

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Architectural optimizations vs the profiler

August 12, 2022

For the past couple of years, we had a stealth project going on inside of RavenDB. That project is meant to re-architect the internals of how RavenDB handles queries. The goal is to have a major performance improvement for RavenDB indexing and queries. We spent a lot of time thinking about architecting this. Design discussions for this feature…

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

August 10, 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…

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Tracking down RavenDB I/O usage in Linux

August 8, 2022

Today I had to look into the a customer whose RavenDB instance was burning through a lot of I/O. The process is somewhat ingrained in me by this point, but I thought that it would make for a good blog post so I’ll recall that next time. Here is what this looks like from the point of view of the disk: We are seeing a lot of reads in terms of…