High level look at RavenDB features presented as a 10 minute lightning talk at the Nov 19 2013 BTVWag.org meeting of 8 lightning talks on NoSQL databases.

2. Very high level
Overview presented at
BTVWag.org
NoSQL Lightning Talks
Nov 19 2013

3. @julielerman
thedatafarm.com

4. RavenDB.net
github.com/ravendb/ravendb

5. Document Database
JSON

6. Comes from .NET World
Written in C#
Hosted on IIS Server
or
Embedded in .NET Client

7. .NET API
HTTP API
V3: native Java API

8. Sharding
Replication
ACID Transactions
Multi-Tenant DBs
Batch Transactions

9. Search
Map/Reduce via Indexes
Static & ad-hoc indexes
Full Text Search (Lucene)
Facets

10. Storage Engine
Esent
Coming in v3: “Voron”

11. Designed for DDD
Entities & Aggregates
Unit of Work
In-memory test DB

12. Document Keys
Auto-generate
Client-assigned
Rest-like keys (meetings/12345)

13. Association Support
But not
Constrained/automatic

14. Collection Support
Defined in Meta-Data

15. Authorize
Authenticate
(Windows/OAuth)

16. Multi-Level
Caching

17. On-going investment

18. UI for Management

19. Commercial Licenses
Support Packages
Training

21. Learn
Articles
Documentation
Google Group
TekPub/Pluralsight

22. RavenDB.net
github.com/ravendb/ravendb

23. @julielerman
thedatafarm.com