Ayende Rahien

RavenDB Performance: 15% improvement in one line

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RavenDB is a database, a transactional one. This means that we have to reach the...

Isn't it ironic: Money isn't transactional

Feb 11, 2025 0

I write a transactional database for a living, and the best example of why we wa...

Sometimes it's the hardware

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An issue was recently raised with a really scary title: Intermittent Index corru...

Performance discovery: Managed vs. Unmanaged memory

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When building RavenDB, we occasionally have to deal with some ridiculous numbers...

Aggregating trees with RavenDB

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We got an interesting question in the RavenDB discussion group:How to do aggrega...

Performance discovery: IOPS vs. IOPS

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RavenDB is a transactional database, we care deeply about ACID. The D in ACID st...

The memory leak in ConcurrentQueue

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We ran into a memory issue recently in RavenDB, which had a pretty interesting r...

Production post-mortem: Inspecting ourselves to death

Feb 11, 2025 0

The problem was that this took time - many days or multiple weeks - for us to ob...

Partial writes, IO_Uring and safety

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In my previous post, I discussed how Linux will silently truncate a big write (>...

Configuration values & Escape hatches

Feb 11, 2025 0

RavenDB is meant to be a self-managing database, one that is able to take care o...

NTFS has an emergency stash of disk space

Feb 11, 2025 0

I would really love to have a better understanding of what is going on here!If y...

Challenge: Giving file system developer ulcer

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I’m trying to reason about the behavior of this code, and I can’t decide if this...

RavenDB 7.1: Next-Gen Pagers

Feb 11, 2025 0

Even though RavenDB 7.0 isn’t quite out of the gate yet (expect the release very...

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