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What is RavenDB?

RavenDB is a NoSQL Document Database that is fully transactional (ACID) across the database and throughout clusters. It is presented as an easy to use all-in-one database that minimizes the need for third party addons, tools, or support to boost…

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RavenDB Review

10 out of 10
February 26, 2022
It is a great product, especially can be told as a powerful database, very efficient and easy to use. It is not a SQL-based database. My …
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Simply the Best

10 out of 10
August 09, 2021
For me, RavenDB is the best database currently available.

RavenDB is a document database written in C# / .NET (Core) which is also the …
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RavenDB wins it all!

10 out of 10
August 04, 2021
My team does the technology R&D for the full firm, and we routinely check out emerging technologies, be it database engines or UI tech. We …
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Popular Features

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  • Data model flexibility (24)
    9.9
    99%
  • Performance (24)
    9.1
    91%
  • Availability (23)
    8.9
    89%
  • Concurrency (23)
    8.0
    80%
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What is RavenDB?

RavenDB is a NoSQL Document Database that is fully transactional (ACID) across the database and throughout clusters. It is presented as an easy to use all-in-one database that…

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Product Details

What is RavenDB?


RavenDB is a NoSQL Document Database that is fully transactional (ACID) across the database and throughout clusters. It is presented as an easy to use all-in-one database that minimizes the need for third party addons, tools, or support to boost developer productivity and get projects into production fast.

Users can setup and secure a data cluster deploy in the cloud, on-premise or in a hybrid environment. RavenDB offers a Database as a Service solution, allowing users to pass on all database operations and focus exclusively on the application. RavenDB has a built-in storage engine that operates at speeds up to 1 million reads per second and 150,000 writes per second on a single node using simple commodity hardware to increase application performance. The vendor states RavenDB has been downloaded over 2 million times serving thousands of customers from Startups to Fortune 100 Large Enterprises.

RavenDB Features include:

  • Query language based on SQL, with Intelligent Coding Assistance in-studio.
  • Works with existing relational databases – ETL feature and migration to Document model available.
  • Multiplatform – C#, Node.js, Java, Python, Ruby, Go
  • Multisystem – Windows, Linux, Mac OS, Docker, Raspberry Pi
  • Works on older machines and smaller devices
  • Built in Full-Text Search, MapReduce, and Storage Engine
  • Schema Free
  • Document Data Compression, TCP Compression
  • Machine Learning Integration
  • DBaaS Solution is HIPPA compliant
  • Concurrent Data Subscriptions
  • Incremental Time Series
  • Elasticsearch ETL
  • Power BI Support
  • Plugins for Grafana for data visualization
  • OLAP ETL – Push your data to data lakes to get business intelligence.
  • Cluster Dashboard – See the real-time status of all the indicators in each node simultaneously.
  • Read-only Certificates – Limit users to seeing data without being able to make changes to it.

RavenDB Features

NoSQL Databases Features

  • Supported: Performance
  • Supported: Availability
  • Supported: Concurrency
  • Supported: Security
  • Supported: Scalability
  • Supported: Data model flexibility
  • Supported: Deployment model flexibility

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RavenDB Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationNo

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MongoDB, Couchbase Server, and Azure Cosmos DB are common alternatives for RavenDB.

Reviewers rate Data model flexibility highest, with a score of 9.9.

The most common users of RavenDB are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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January 04, 2022

Easy to Use, Effective Performance & Powerful NoSQL Database System

Parthesh Pandya | TrustRadius Reviewer
Parthesh Pandya
Senior Marketing Associate
Smart Alarm System (Security & Investigations, 11-50 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pros and Cons
  • Excellent & optimized performance.
  • RavenDB provides storage as default JSON format.
  • One of the greatest .NET client APIs with scalability, resulting in a shorter experience curve.
  • Very easy to use interface.
  • Developing methods is challenging if developers are unfamiliar with the accurate simulation approach.
  • It does not allow you to replicating, or authorized access without first acquiring a license.
  • The lack of evidence of tracking records in the enterprise systems raises several concerns about RavenDB.
December 06, 2021

Speedy caching solution and easy to implement

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 201-500 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pros and Cons
  • Easy to learn and fully utilize. The tools made available are very simple and system maintenance is largely hands-free
  • Quick memory caching
  • Free of major errors. Any data is immediately stored to the hub
  • Can dual as a channel for stream data
  • Would like to see RavenDB develop a self-monitoring tool for bottlenecks
  • Needs a bigger community around the software. Difficult to find an immediate solution when faced with a new problem
  • Creating and configuring uncommon settings can sometimes be difficult
August 09, 2021

Simply the Best

KP
Kenny Pflug
Technical Lead
Synnotech AG (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pros and Cons
  • 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
  • Configuring the JSON Serializer was a little bit hard in one project
  • Creating custom indexes from several documents can sometimes be a bit cumbersome
August 02, 2021

If you need read performance or abstraction from a datastore look no further.

Richard Norman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Richard Norman
Software Architect
Lobster Financial Systems Ltd (Financial Services, 1-10 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pros and Cons
  • Easy to implement an Event Sourced Architecture
  • Very rapid response times
  • Highly abstract to enable smart design
  • Large scale complex data updates can be painful
  • Finding people who know how to use it and appreciate it
  • Doesn't support direct GraphQL (yet)
June 07, 2021

RavenDB is an easy and fast noSQL database to use, powerful as well with transactions.

Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pros and Cons
  • It is a fully transactional noSQL database.
  • Execute queries very fast, having a powerful structure of indexes.
  • High level of data compression makes possible a very low space occupation.
  • So far, I don't know any area where RavenDB has room for improvement.
May 03, 2021

RavenDB - ACID NoSQL Database

Verified User
Engineer in Research & Development
Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pros and Cons
  • Awesome auto indexing
  • Multi language support
  • Optimized search
  • Good documentation
  • High cost for on-premise
  • Less community
  • Was maturing when we started project.
February 06, 2021

Ravens have the biggest brain-to-body size ratios just like RavenDB.

Sina Zaimaran | TrustRadius Reviewer
Sina Zaimaran
Chief Technology Officer
JinnSpender (Computer Software, 1-10 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pros and Cons
  • Cool clustering with modest features
  • Fabulous auto indexing
  • Great studio and dashboard
  • Detailed documentation
  • Attachments on the document
  • Outstanding revisions
  • Easy ETL
  • Low prices on the clouds
  • Multi model support
  • Advance search
  • Informative webinars
  • High on-premise prices.
  • Not a vast community.
January 15, 2021

Raven DB offers everything a developer needs in a document object database!

Adam Nemitoff | TrustRadius Reviewer
Adam Nemitoff
Sofware Consultant / Developer
Team Nemitoff LLC (Computer Software, 1-10 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros and Cons
  • The C# client makes using RavenDB feel like a natural part of the C# language.
  • Support is top notch! Even using free support you get speedy replies from engineers responsible for development of the DB engine.
  • The hosted cloud product is reasonably priced and makes it easy to deploy a resilient cluster with automatic backups.
  • I have never encountered any tasks that RavenDB could not handle.
August 10, 2020

Three years with RavenDB

Alex Klaus | TrustRadius Reviewer
Alex Klaus
Tech Lead / Architect
LawMaster (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pros and Cons
  • Integration with the .NET infrastructure (LINQ)
  • Rich querying capabilities and flexible indexes
  • Great tech support
  • More examples and good practices
  • Better Azure/AWS/GCP integration (more transparency)
  • Deferred patching of multiple documents when the index is not stale
  • Clusters with >3 nodes when hosting in the cloud
July 21, 2020

RavenDB user since the first version

Wallace Turner | TrustRadius Reviewer
Wallace Turner
Architect/Senior Developer/Team Leader
Financial and Energy Exchange Group formerly Mercari Interbank Brokers (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pros and Cons
  • Feature rich .NET API.
  • Simple setup for clustering/high availability.
  • Fast document access via auto indexing.
  • Own language for querying (RQL) not usable elsewhere
  • learning curve for stale documents/eventual consistency
July 20, 2020

Raven - database for the brain-dead developer

Jeremy Holt | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jeremy Holt
Managing Director
Amberwood Trading Ltd. (Food Production, 1-10 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pros and Cons
  • Once over the initial learning curve, using Raven requires very little thinking about. Even though it is capable of doing almost anything you can imagine, learning how to LoadAsync, StoreAsync, QueryAsync are pretty much all you need to know to do about 99% of the day to day tasks.
  • Write the POCO for your data - Raven does the rest
  • With v 4.0+ you hardly ever need to write queries - Raven's automatic queries handle about 99% of my requirements
  • In previous versions the documentation was terrible - however, since v4.0 the documentation is excellent.
  • Any minor complaints are generally resolved by the team the same day. I suggested at one time some minor tweaks to Studio (showing the number of items in an array) and they were implemented almost immediately.
  • Nothing really to complain about.
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