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RavenDB NoSQL Database
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RavenDB NoSQL Database is the company blog at ravendb.net, writing about programming and data. Since 2010, 49 different Hacker News readers have linked it 83 times, most often “Raven DB - .Net document database goes live”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Rarely recommended · 0 of 35 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link ravendb.net as the site for the RavenDB .NET document database. Comments cite its automatic index creation and features, mostly in comparisons with other databases.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 35 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
RavenDB NoSQL database is built for scalability, flexibility, and high-performance data management. Leverage a world-class document database today.
Most-linked posts?
- Raven DB - .Net document database goes live8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2010-05-18
- RavenDB NoSQL Document Database6 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2017-12-20
- Nosql for .net released4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2010-05-19
- /2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-08-09
- Comparing SQLite WAL Mode to Voron’s2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-09-06
- /docs/client-api/advanced/transaction-support2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-03-04
- Data Ownership in Distributed Systems2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-18
- On AI, GPT and the future of developers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-02
- /buy2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-11-02
- Production Postmortem: The Heisenbug Server2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-25
What Hacker News says?
>> "I want to make a materialized view that's the result of a query, but that gets updated as new rows get inserted or as the rows it uses gets updated." RavenDB[0] gets a lot of this right for the .NET stack. RavenDB creates something very much like your continuous view -- called indexes[1] in RavenDB -- for every query you've run against it. Any successive queries aren't really queries at all, but are results from…
Comment linking /docs/article-page/3.0/Csharp/indexes/what-are-indexes
on “Cache is the new RAM”Submitted The Smartest Compression Features on the Market as a story · 8 points
HN discussionRavenDB http://ravendb.net/docs/client-api/advanced/transaction-supp...
Comment linking /docs/client-api/advanced/transaction-support
on “DocumentDB”Submitted RavenDB - Open Source .Net Document Database (NoSql) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionOn Jet Blue (ESE)? It wouldn't be the first, RavenDB http://ravendb.net is based on ESE. I remember awhle back doing work on a system that (ab)used MS Exchange Server 5 as a database, mostly because of the Outlook integration.
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on “DocumentDB”Submitted Working with Market Data Using Time Series in RavenDB as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAnother case of Not Invented Here syndrome from Microsoft. One wonders why they couldn't just take the open source and very well architected RavenDB http://ravendb.net .Net Document DB and provide first class support for that within Azure.
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on “DocumentDB”Submitted Raven DB - .Net document database goes live as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> Your comments are surprising since you seem to have experience F# and other languages and yet it sounds like you haven't used any modern .NET version. Most of the stuff I've written in .net(core) has been in F# and C# (v8) and runtime v3.1. So much pain playing 20 questions with libs whose runtime requirements were thoroughly and widely distributed across all the runtime versions in a quest to get them to co-opera…
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on “.NET Orleans”Submitted Comparing SQLite WAL Mode to Voron’s as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSaying "built for speed" doesn't really mean much. .NET created the async Task model that other languages adopted and has all kinds of performance related features from Span/Memory APIs to SIMD vector operations. AOT doesn't have anything to do with performance but helps with startup time and packaging. The .NET JIT now has tiered compilation with secondary passes that optimize hot methods with much more input about…
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on “.NET Orleans”Submitted Products, Pricing and Predictability: Comparison Between MongoDB and RavenDB as a story · 3 points
HN discussionjust that the GPL is meant for code and CC isn't so it has special considerations in it that aren't in CC. CC is meant for media like images, video and text. RavenDB is a company that offers a dual license commercial and AGPL. http://ravendb.net/docs/appendixes/licensing You may be able to glean some information on how they do it.
Comment linking /docs/appendixes/licensing
on “Show HN: GoldenLayout – JavaScript Layout Manager”Submitted Couchbase vs. RavenDB Performance at Rakuten Kobo as a story · 3 points
HN discussionRavenDB has this feature, but it will also go ahead and create the relevant indexes needed on the fly. It is able to do so without harming production performance. See: https://ravendb.net/learn/inside-ravendb-book/reader/4.0/9-q...
Comment linking /learn/inside-ravendb-book/reader/4.0/9-querying-in-ravendb
on “The SQLite Index Suggester”Submitted NoSQL Database for Remote Working by Oren Eini as a story · 3 points
HN discussion"Failed Jepsen tests" is relative; Kyle tends to be quite thorough in his Jepsen tests, so can usually find some issue in even the best of databases. The big difference is in how severe the difference between claims and reality are, and how the maintainers or vendors react to such bug reports. In some cases, the maintainers or vendors will fix bugs, or update docs to be more clear. The different transaction isolated…
Comment linking /docs/article-page/6.0/csharp/client-api/session/what-is-a-session-and-how-does-it-work
on “RavenDB 6.0.2 (A Jepsen Report)”Submitted NoSQL Distributed DB as a Game-Changer for a Taxi Booking Platform by Oren Eini as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'm biased (I work part-time for the company), but RavenDB[0] 4.0 is damn fast, cross platform, and has beautiful tooling. It's built on .NET Core, and our current performance is 140k writes/sec. We also bend over backwards to optimize read speeds: we generated indexes automatically based on your query patterns, discarding unused indexes and throwing server resources behind the hot ones. Also, unlike many other NoSQ…
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on “MongoDB has filed to go public”Submitted Nosql for .net released as a story · 3 points
HN discussionRavenDB knows auto indexes, though I haven't tried it yet. http://ravendb.net/
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on “Postgres Demystified”Submitted Not Sharding RavenDB Vector Search as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI like RavenDb, but correct me if I'm wrong, but it isn't free? http://ravendb.net/buy
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on “Developer Preview: RethinkDB Now Available for Windows”Submitted The Race Condition in Interlock as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf you're in C#, the best NoSQL database for you is RavenDB[0]. First class LINQ support. Transactions. Full text search. Blazing fast. Open source. And it creates and maintains indexes for you based on your app's queries; database machine learning that keeps your app fast. Disclaimer: I'm a bit biased, as I've contributed to RavenDB. But it really is a great document database. I use it on nearly every project, pers…
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on “Developer Preview: RethinkDB Now Available for Windows”Submitted On AI, GPT and the future of developers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionRavenDB has this feature https://ravendb.net/learn/inside-ravendb-book/reader/4.0/9-q...
Comment linking /learn/inside-ravendb-book/reader/4.0/9-querying-in-ravendb
on “Why Can't Database Tables Index Themselves? (2006)”Submitted Building emergency pathways in your software (never to be used) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionRavenDB (noSQL) does this already: https://ravendb.net/docs/article-page/5.3/csharp/indexes/cre...
Comment linking /docs/article-page/5.3/csharp/indexes/creating-and-deploying
on “Why Can't Database Tables Index Themselves? (2006)”Submitted Optimizing Corax: optimizing tree operations as a story · 2 points
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