RavenDB

A document database with ACID transactions, automatic indexing and built-in replication, written in C#. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.

Month
November 2026
Votes
0
Category
database engine
Developer
RavenDB Ltd.
Created by
Oren Eini
First release
2010
License
AGPL-3.0 or commercial
Open source
Yes
Pricing
Free, with paid plans
Website
https://ravendb.net
Written in
C#
Data model
Document, Search, Time-series, Vector
Storage layout
Document
Workload
Transactions (OLTP)
Analytics architecture
Not an analytics platform
Query language
RQL (Raven Query Language)
ACID transactions
Yes
Schema
Flexible
Deployment
Distributed cluster, Managed cloud, Server
Scaling
Sharding
Create, read, update, delete
Create: fast (Batch document writes in ACID transactions); Read: fast (Document lookups and automatically maintained indexes); Update: moderate (Document replacement or server-side patches); Delete: moderate (Document deletes replicate through tombstones)

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