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System Properties Comparison RavenDB vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

experimental

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Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#127	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

ravendb.net

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

ravendb.net/docs

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Hibernating Rhinos

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2010

Current release

5.1, November 2020

10.1, October 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Java Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

MapReduce functions can be defined in Linq

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

User concepts

Access control

Access control on document level using the Authorization Bundle

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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Specific characteristics

RavenDB is the pioneer NoSQL Document Database that is fully transactional (ACID)...
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Competitive advantages

RavenDB is easy to setup and secure. You can do it in a matter of minutes . Easy...
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Typical application scenarios

IoT for Edge Deployments Fraud Detection Recommendation Engines Product Catalogs...
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Key customers

Toyota, Capgemini, Vodafone, Medicaid, Asos, Nomura, RMS Automotive, MSNBC, Pluralsight,...
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Market metrics

2 million+ downloads 1000+ customers including Fortune 500 large enterprises
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Licensing and pricing models

RavenDB is available on-premise and in the cloud. RavenDB Cloud is available on AWS...
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Recent citations in the news

How to create a new database with RavenDB
6 January 2021, TechRepublic

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31 August 2020, InfoQ.com

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