RavenDB Time Series Webinar recording (and benchmark results)

The RavenDB Time Series webinar is now available, and as usual, I would love your feedback. This webinar had the most questions yet, including a few curve balls that I had to field midway through. It was fun. I also gave some bad information during the webinar, and I want to apologize for that. I mentioned some benchmark results and it appear that…

The design implications of ApiKey vs. List<ApiKey>

When building a system with API Keys, you need to consider a seemingly trivial design question. Consider the two class diagram options on the right. We have a user’s account and we need to allow access to a certain resource. We do that using an API Key. Fairly simple and standard, to be honest. We have a deceptively simple choice. We can have a…

Talk: Advanced indexing with RavenDB

I think it was a great webinar, you can want it…

Talk: Modeling in a non relational world

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RavenDB 5.0 Features: Smart document compression

Documents in RavenDB can be of arbitrary size. Technically, they are limited to 2 GB in size, but if you get anywhere near that, you have other issues. The worst case I have seen is a 700+ MB file, but RavenDB will issue warnings if you have documents that exceed the 5 MB range. This is mostly because the cost of sending those MB range documents…

Modeling in a Non-Relational World with Oren Eini

A NoSQL Database For More Demanding Workloads

Most websites and landing pages still try to be all things to all people — putting the onus on users to find what they want. RavenDB newest client, view.DO uses Web 5.0 technology to digitally converse with each customer and prospect to give them immediate and specific answers, content, and follow-ups that relate to their particular…

A NoSQL Database for Online Gaming

StarNet chooses RavenDB NoSQL database to meet the fast-growing gaming industry demands. StarNet specializes in Domain-Driven Design of information systems across all platforms (desktop, web, and mobile). Their primary domain is sports betting and RNG casino games. The company’s objective is to provide a platform to organize, market,…

Executing your configuration

I run into this blog post talking about using a real programming language for defining your configuration. I couldn’t agree more, I wrote about it 15 years ago. In fact, I agree so much I wrote a whole book about the topic. Configuration is fairly simple, on its face. You need to pass some values to a program to execute. In the simplest form, you…