Challenge: Spot the data corruption

The following code does not output the right value, can you tell why? This has been a real bug that we ran into (with only slightly more complicated code. The sort of things that make you just stare at the screen in disbelief when you realize what is going…

Customer Success Story: Beatman

Software development company Beatman is one of RavenDB’s oldest customers, joining us back in version 1.0 over a decade ago. Find out why RavenDB has remained their database of choice in this live, unscripted discussion between RavenDB CEO Oren Eini and Beatman CEO Herve Bansay.

re: BonsaiDb performance update: A deep-dive on file synchronization

I run into this fascinating blog post discussing the performance of BonsaiDb. To summarize the post, the author built a database and benchmarked it, but wasn’t actually calling fsync() to ensure durability. When they added the fsync() call at the right time, the performance didn’t degrade as expected. It turned out that they were running…

InfoQ interview with me on RavenDB, database consistency and using C# as a system language

My podcast interview with Wesley Reisz from InfoQ has been published. I think it was a very interesting…

Cloud security and college assignment

I’m teaching a college class about Cloud Computing and part of that is giving various assignments to build stuff on the cloud. That part is pretty routine. One of my requests for the tasks is to identify failure mode in the system, and one of the students that I’m currently grading had this doozy scenario: If you’ll run this code you may have to…

Oren Eini on InfoQ: Consistency Guarantees and C# as the Implementation Language

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…

RavenDB at Rakuten Kobo recording is now available

I had a great discussion with Trevor, the CTO of Rakuten Kobo about their use of RavenDB, you can watch it here: …

The system that prevents problems instead of solving them