Save Time and Money with Non Relational Database Data Compression

Get the Benefits of a Document Database with the Storage Savings and Performance of an SQL Legacy Model There is a lot they don’t tell you about relational databases. How quickly we forget that we were using this technology even before ABBA came out with its first hit song: Requiring you to scale the Mount Everest of complexity with a…

Upcoming webinar: Getting a peaceful date night with RavenDB

Next week I’m going to be talking with Ryan Rounkles about his use of RavenDB in Tended App. The Tended App is a medical services app for parents with a child that has medical needs. It can be something as simple as the sniffles or a 24-hour virus, to special needs kids which require constant attention. Join us on Aug 25, 2020 10:30 AM…

NoSQL Data Retention and Rollups

Rollup and Data Retention in RavenDB NoSQL Time Series Time series allows you to record data over time, usually in super small increments to enable you to see patterns in the data. By measuring the direction of your data with such micro precision, you are able to conduct better analysis. It can be a really valuable tool in reducing costs,…

Production post-mortem: Too much RAM and the unstable cluster

A customer reported that on their system, they suffered from frequent cluster elections in some cases. That is usually an indication that the system resources are hit in some manner. From experience, that usually means that the I/O on the machine is capped (very common in the cloud) or that there is some network issue. The customer was able to…

#SoLeadSaturday Episode 37 – Oren Eini

What is default(object) used for?

I was asked what the meaning of default(object) is in the following piece of code: The code is something that you’ll see a lot in RavenDB indexes, but I understand why it is a strange construct. The default(object) is a way to null. This is asking the C# compiler to add the default value of the object type, which is null. So why not simply say…

A NoSQL Database That Fits in Your Network With Ease

RavenDB’s Easy Tools for Inter-Database Communication RavenDB can be deployed in a wide variety of configurations, ranging from a single server powering a simple website, to sprawling networks of different and loosely connected databases. Building and maintaining such networks can be a huge headache. In this article I’ll introduce you to a few…

Processing large aggregations in RavenDB

One of the distinguishing feature of RavenDB is its ability to process large aggregations very quickly. You can ask questions on very large data sets and get the results in milliseconds. This is interesting, because RavenDB isn’t an OLAP database and the kind of questions that we ask can be quite complex. For example, we have the…

ACID Database for Big Data: RavenDB Releases New Version for IoT and Cloud

RavenDB 5.0 expands multi-model collection to include Time Series data modelling while tackling the classic dilemma of storage in a document ACID database. RavenDB Time Series expands its array of data models which include Document, Key-Value, Distributed Counters, and Graph Queries.RavenDB becomes the first data management solution to solve…