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RavenDB goes live!

I have been talking about this for what seems like forever (over two years, if you really care to know), but it is finally out.

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You can access our site at http://ravendb.net

What you will find there is:

  • Tutorials
  • Sample application
  • Extensive documentation
  • Commercial options & support
  • An active community

Head on there, and please let us know what you think…

But before you go, I would like to send my heartfelt thanks for the following people, for their help & support:

  • Aaron Weiker
  • Andrew Stewart
  • Andrew Theken
  • Andy Stewart
  • Benny Thomas
  • Bjarte Skogoy
  • Bobby Johnson
  • Emil Cardell
  • Luke Hertert
  • Mark Henke
  • Paul B
  • Rob Ashton
  • Steve Strong

Heading to the launch event now. Fly Raven, Fly :-)

Print | posted on Tuesday, May 18, 2010 8:04 PM

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# re: RavenDB goes live! 5/18/2010 8:12 PM Jeff Doolittle

Congratulations. Quite an accomplishment! I'm looking forward to diving in deeper and making use of this technology on some upcoming projects.

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# re: RavenDB goes live! 5/18/2010 8:19 PM Dominick

Good luck with this, but I have to say that the licensing fees will prevent me from exploring this product. I'm sure you'll find a lot of companies willing to pay because I'm sure it's a very good product.

Again, best of luck!

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# re: RavenDB goes live! 5/18/2010 8:28 PM Javier Lozano

Congrats!!!

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# re: RavenDB goes live! 5/18/2010 8:34 PM Simone

Super congratulations on the release!!!

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# re: RavenDB goes live! 5/18/2010 8:37 PM Chakri Bireddy

Congrats!!!

Thanks for making Documents DB more and easily accessible to .NET community.

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# re: RavenDB goes live! 5/18/2010 9:00 PM Gokul

Congratulations! Let's Raven rule object databases :)

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# re: RavenDB goes live! 5/18/2010 9:03 PM ali62b

Good job, keep up the good work.

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# re: RavenDB goes live! 5/18/2010 9:56 PM Sean Kearon

Great work, looks really interesting. One question - does RavenDB support a desktop deployment model at all? If so, do you have plans for a commercial licensing for this model?

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# re: RavenDB goes live! 5/18/2010 10:34 PM Karloff

Likewise, congratulations on releasing RavenDB!

I do have one question though... if a company decided to use a RavenDB cluster (nevermind the sharding bundle) of say 16 nodes, would that seriously result in a grand total perpetual enterprise license fee of USD 137,584 as licensing is per instance??!

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# re: RavenDB goes live! 5/18/2010 11:12 PM ali62b

i get "The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized." when I run Hello sample :( . why ?

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# re: RavenDB goes live! 5/19/2010 12:02 AM Glenn Block

Congrats dude. MEF (the library) thanks you :-)

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# re: RavenDB goes live! 5/19/2010 12:12 AM Karthik

Awesome. Great work and its awesome to see great stuff like this coming out of the .NET open source community.

Now we'll see if Microsoft releases their own version of this called "Crow" :)

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# re: RavenDB goes live! 5/19/2010 1:04 AM Richard Dingwall

Congratulations, I really enjoyed your talk tonight.

One question - AGPL license means I can use RavenDB behind the scenes of my website no problem, but if I modify Raven at all I have to release those changes back. Does this include bundles? My entire website?

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# re: RavenDB goes live! 5/19/2010 4:03 AM Ayende Rahien

Sean,
Yes, Raven can be run in an embedded fashion.
That is what the OEM license is for. Please contact me if you are interested in more details about it

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# re: RavenDB goes live! 5/19/2010 4:05 AM Ayende Rahien

ali62b ,
You probably need to set the anonymous user access mode to all in the app.config

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# re: RavenDB goes live! 5/19/2010 4:05 AM Ayende Rahien

Karlof,
You can see my reply in the mailing list.

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# re: RavenDB goes live! 5/19/2010 4:07 AM Ayende Rahien

Richard,
No, the AGPL will apply to your website code as well.
To use Raven commercially in closed source software, you need to buy it.
This is whatever or not you modified Raven

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# re: RavenDB goes live! 5/19/2010 4:52 AM Magesh

Congrats!!!

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# re: RavenDB goes live! 5/19/2010 6:48 AM Rasel Jabbar

Congrats!! Yay, thanks...can't wait to play with it!

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# re: RavenDB goes live! 5/19/2010 7:34 AM Apolon Ivankovic

That is fantastic! Congratulations and all of the best with the product.
As some feedback, my first impression is that the per-instance commercial pricing is too high. The current pricing leads me to think its something to experiment with in the future and not jump into now.

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# re: RavenDB goes live! 5/19/2010 10:53 AM Arnold Zokas

Congratulations!
And thanks for the great intro to RavenDB @ SkillsMatter yesterday.

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# re: RavenDB goes live! 5/19/2010 6:24 PM ali62b

@Ayende unfortunately it didn't fix the problem, but I fix that by add full control permission to NETWORK user on the Raven Folder (but I think just add permission on Data folder would fix the problem). Thanks...

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# re: RavenDB goes live! 5/19/2010 6:27 PM Ayende Rahien

Oh, are you running in IIS?
Yeah, that would cause it

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# re: RavenDB goes live! 5/19/2010 6:31 PM ali62b

Yep...

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# re: RavenDB goes live! 5/20/2010 8:39 AM Jeff

LOL, and I thought all these passionate posts were purely altruistic: teaching the masses what 'good' architecture was and why document databases were sooooooo much better than relational databases! You, Ayende, are a master marketer! In the states we would call you: "A great used car salesmen!" Apparently you are a magnificent capitalist!

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# re: RavenDB goes live! 5/20/2010 9:36 AM Ayende Rahien

Jeff,
> you are a magnificent capitalist

I'll take that as a compliment.

Although I am not suer what caused you any surprise here. I always blog about what I am doing

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# re: RavenDB goes live! 5/20/2010 7:40 PM Jeff

It was a complement!

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# re: RavenDB goes live! 5/21/2010 12:50 AM Tobby

You HAVE to make it more popular on google.
And think about how to handle the massive amount of support request when u will be the 1st hit on the keywords "database" and "sql".

Good luck Ayende.

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