Likelihood to Recommend It’s great for server less and real-time applications. It would be great for gaming and mobile apps. However, if you need relational database and have fixed budget, do not use it. While budget can be managed, you need to be careful. Also this is not a tool for storing big data, there are other wide-column database types you could use for it ins the ad
Read full review If you're a.NET developer searching for a system other than SQL Server for business assessment, then you must try RavenDB. RavenDB is a fantastic document-oriented system that has been specifically developed to work with all.NET or Windows systems. Developers are continually working on such systems to eliminate their flaws while also providing a few benefits. We must refresh ourselves on a regular basis since the free software system is like an open area where anybody may stand up with a brilliant solution to the issue. RavenDB is absolutely worth a look
Read full review Pros To manage varying workloads, it enables users to increase capacity as necessary and decrease it as needed. Users can take advantage of its auto-scaling, in-memory caching, and backup without paying for the services of a database administrator. We can use it for low scale operations. Read full review Document Database - no Object-Relational Impedance Mismatch ACID support that is optimized for performance Can be easily integrated into automated tests (unit tests) Easily configurable via C# code Comes directly with RavenStudio - no SSMS or SQL Developer required In general low footprint when it comes to memory and disk consumption Useful safety nets for new developers - e.g. by default an exception is thrown when you make too many requests within a session Read full review Cons Cost model may not be easy to control and may lead to higher costs if not carefully planned Indexing may be a cost culprit when not planned, because it's not included on the data costs The Query Language may not fulfill everybody's expectations, as it has less features than those of competitors. Read full review The documentation is very good, but it's sometimes hard to find the topic I'm looking for. Updating references is done manually. It would be nice if there was a feature to help with that. I'm not sure that's even possible though. Read full review Likelihood to Renew It's core to our business, we couldn't survive without it. We use it to drive everything from FTP logins to processing stories and delivering them to clients. It's reliable and easy to query from all of our pipeline services. Integration with things like
AWS Lambda makes it easy to trigger events and run code whenever something changes in the database.
Read full review We've had an excellent experience using RavenDB. Internally we are testing the newer features in 5.0 such as time series, which will effect the con specified previously dependent on the real world performance. We foresee that BattleCrate will continue to use RavenDB as we grow.
Read full review Usability Functionally, DynamoDB has the features needed to use it. The interface is not as easy to use, which impacts its usability. Being familiar with AWS in general is helpful in understanding the interface, however it would be better if the interface more closely aligned with traditional tools for managing datastores.
Read full review Really good .NET client that is very easy to use. The management studio is excellent and puts anything that Microsoft or Oracle have to shame. Very quick to develop with once the complexity hurdle has been overcome. Initially using it can be a bit painful until you fully grasp the event sourced nature of the indexing.
Read full review Performance It works very well across all the regions and response time is also very quick due to AWS's internal data transfer. Plus if your product requires HIPPA or some other regulations needs to be followed, you can easily replicate the DB into multiple regions and they manage all by it's own.
Read full review Support Rating I have not had to contact support for this service, however I have had to contact AWS for other services and their support has been good.
Read full review The support is really fast and flexible. Since one single working day, we got a response to our first request, only 4 days later we got a technical demonstration for our complete developer team to get in touch with raven and its performance. Also during our development, we got a quick response to questions.
Read full review Implementation Rating RavenFS changed along the way and made us change the codes.
Read full review Alternatives Considered The only thing that can be compared to DynamoDB from the selected services can be Aurora. It is just that we use Aurora for High-Performance requirements as it can be 6 times faster than normal RDS DB. Both of them have served as well in the required scenario and we are very happy with most of the AWS services.
Read full review The given alternatives are also powerful and really good noSQL databases but the highest availability of RavenDB allows me/us to know it a lot better. RavenDB is encrypted by default wherever we use it in production and it has a high level of documents compression.
Read full review Scalability I have taken one point away due to its size limits. In case the application requires queries, it becomes really complicated to read and write data. When it comes to extremely large data sets such as the case in my company, a third-party logistics company, where huge amount of data is generated on a daily basis, even though the scalability is good, it becomes difficult to manage all the data due to limits.
Read full review Return on Investment Some developers see DynamoDB and try to fit problems to it, instead of picking the best solution for a given problem. This is true of any newer tool that people are trying to adopt. It has allowed us to add more scalability to some of our systems. As with any new technology there was a ramp up/rework phase as we learned best practices. Read full review RavenDB has saved my customers a lot of money with their cloud services' tiered model. The database is able to grow with the project/company and can start out small at a low cost. RavenDB is free for three nodes and three CPUs, which makes it great for development scenarios. You're able to start rapidly building applications without having to worry about licensing. Scaling out has allowed us to use three small cloud servers when starting out and get the performance and throughput of a single larger server. Read full review ScreenShots Amazon DynamoDB Screenshots