RavenDB Documentation

Everything you need to know about our product, from getting started to advanced features.

Starting points

Developer

Learn how to create a client, connect to the server, handle documents and more

DevOps

Learn how to install RavenDB, set up a cluster, maintain the database and more

Use cases

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Indexes

Static indexes

Complete control over precomputing & performance

Auto indexes

Self‑optimizing database with zero manual effort

Querying

Raven Query Language

Simple yet powerful SQL-style queries

Full-text search

Cutting‑edge integrated search engine

Patching

Transform documents at scale with a script

Facets

Slice and navigate through a large dataset

MoreLikeThis

Get similar documents based on content

Document extensions

Revisions

Capture, track, and rewind any change

Attachments

Attach binary files directly to documents - scalable, searchable

Counters

Simple, scalable, and conflict-free numeric counters

Background tasks

Expiration

Automatically scheduled documents cleanup

Refresh

Automatically re-trigger your documents

Clusters

Cluster-wide tasks

Cluster-wide, auto‑failover tasks (backup, ETL, subscriptions)

Cluster-wide transactions

Partition-tolerant ACID writes across a cluster

Ongoing tasks

Replication

Keeps your clusters in sync for high availability

Subscriptions

Subscribe to defined documents, trigger your worker routines on field updates

Periodic backups

Scheduled full & incremental backups

Security

Certificates

Secure your server with X.509 certificates and fine-grained access control

Encryption

Transparent at-rest & in-transit, data security without code changes

Monitoring

Cluster dashboard

Customizable live view of your cluster's health and performance

SNMP monitoring

Easily expose RavenDB metrics to Zabbix/Datadog/PTRG

Administration

Studio

State-of-the-art admin interface bundled in every RavenDB license

RavenCLI

Simple yet powerful shell tool for server admin

NLog

Seamless NLog integration to route RavenDB logs anywhere

Integration

RavenDB ETL

Move and transform data between RavenDB databases

SQL ETL

Send documents to SQL databases with schema transformation