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RavenDB

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A document database that includes the things others sell as add-ons

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  • Deployment Cloud Based, On Premise, SaaS
  • Starting price Not published
  • Free trial Available
  • Best for Small Business, Medium Business, Large Enterprise

What is RavenDB?

RavenDB is a document database designed to be self-contained, with indexing, full-text search, distributed operation and administration tooling built into the product rather than assembled from separate services, and it publishes a direct comparison against MongoDB.

Including the surrounding capabilities is the distinguishing philosophy and it addresses a real accumulation problem. A team choosing a document database usually adds a search engine, a caching layer and a monitoring stack around it, and ends up operating four systems whose failure modes interact. A database with those capabilities native has fewer moving parts to keep in agreement.

Publishing a head-to-head comparison with MongoDB is a confident move and a useful one for buyers, because MongoDB is the default choice in this category and any alternative has to answer why it should be considered at all. A vendor willing to make that argument explicitly is easier to evaluate than one that pretends the comparison does not exist.

The developer material is substantial, with a developer hub, quick start guides, documentation, a bootcamp and workshops published openly. That matters for a database outside the default choice, since the practical barrier to adopting one is not capability but the availability of answers when something goes wrong at midnight. Rates are not published; RavenDB is quoted through sales.

Key Features of RavenDB

  • Document data model
  • Built-in indexing engine
  • Native full-text search
  • Distributed cluster operation
  • ACID transactions
  • Administration and monitoring studio
  • Fewer external dependencies
  • Published MongoDB comparison
  • Developer hub and documentation
  • Free bootcamp and workshops
  • Self-hosted and cloud options
  • Multi-platform support

RavenDB Pricing

Not published

Not published

No rate is published. Pricing is quoted per customer or billed on usage rather than as published plan tiers.

RavenDB Specifications

Deployment
  • Cloud Based
  • On Premise
  • SaaS
Desktop
  • Web App
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Mac
Built for
  • Small Business
  • Medium Business
  • Large Enterprise
Support
  • Email
  • Knowledge Base
Public API
Yes
Free trial
Yes
Free plan
No
Runs in browser
No
Customisable
No
Website
ravendb.net

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RavenDB FAQs

Rates are not published on the captured pages. Licences and cloud instances are quoted through the sales team.

Indexing, full-text search, distributed operation and administration are built in rather than assembled from separate services, so there are fewer moving parts to keep in agreement.

A team choosing a document database usually adds a search engine, a caching layer and a monitoring stack, and ends up operating four systems whose failure modes interact.

MongoDB is the default choice in this category, so any alternative has to answer why it should be considered. A vendor making that argument explicitly is easier to evaluate.

A developer hub, quick start guides, documentation, a bootcamp and workshops, which matter because the practical barrier to a non-default database is finding answers at midnight.