RavenDB is a document-database written in C#. It's very easy to work with as a document database, and it serves as a great replacement for SQL databases and ORM's for many types of applications. But reporting and ad-hoc querying is not one of its strong suits, and this is why the official recommenda...

This week I'm working with Particular Software of NServiceBus fame. There's a shiny new platform for designing, managing and debugging distributed systems coming up and while doing some work on it I hit the following failing test. The documentStore is an EmbeddableDocumentStore which was properly in...

In this article, which got published some time ago in a developers' magazine in Norway, we are going to explore two of the lesser-known features of RavenDB, and show how they can greatly improve your application and your business.

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A very common requirement with any database engine is to be able to store and query hierarchical data. This usually comes up in the context of categories for products in an e-commerce website, in a site-structure context (this page needs to be a parent of that page) or when trying to model company h...

2014 hasn't even started yet, and I already have a full schedule for the next couple of months. Here is a list of talks and courses I'm doing publicly, on RavenDB and search technologies (Lucene and Elasticsearch). I will update this list as new events come in.

1. December 30th, Tel-Aviv: the Inaugura...

I've recently come across this question in StackOverflow titled "Many to many design for NoSql (RavenDB)", and I thought it is a really good case of a very frequently asked question worth featuring here:

I have two simple objects, 'user' and 'events'. A user can enter many events and an e...

In RavenDB, indexes play a crucial part in answering queries. Without them, it is impossible to find data on anything other than the document ID, and therefore RavenDB becomes just a bloated key/value store. Indexes are the piece of the puzzle that allows rich queries for data to be satisfied effic...

Last week I spoke at Oredev, an awesome conference in cold Sweden. It was fun meeting all those great people, and the atmosphere was really great.

My first talk was an introductory level one on Elasticsearch - what it is, how it can be used and what it can do. I really like this shiny piece of techn...

A couple of months ago we published an excerpt from the RavenDB in Action book I'm writing. It contained the first sections of the chapter discussing the indexing process of RavenDB, and I was really happy with the feedback we got on it. Both excerpt readers and book readers who have read the entire...

By the end of the year I'll be giving several talks around search and also on the work we do at Buzzilla. Following is a quick list for those interested.

Catch me in either of these events to talk about anything technology related (search technologies and NoSQL especially). I'll be giving away free ...