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rcknight | 13 years ago

RavenDB is also ACID I beleive? The foundation site makes it sound like they are the only one.

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FoundationDB founder here. We think that it's awesome that RavenDB also supports multi-node ACID transactions. However, on page 9 of https://s3.amazonaws.com/daily-builds/RavenDBMythology-11.pd... they warn against relying on this capability:

"RavenDB supports multi document (and multi node) transactions, but even so, it isn’t recommended for common use, because of the potential for issues when using distributed transactions."

So, the differentiator is that FoundationDB is built from the ground up to support these type of transactions at high performance levels with no "potential issues".

Maarten88|13 years ago

That remark seems a bit unfair. That document is two years old, from long before version 1.0. RavenDB is now at version 2.0. It was also built with transaction support from the start. The default setting for TransactionMode is Safe (http://ravendb.net/docs/server/administration/configuration) so most users will use that, if there were any issues with it that would certainly be known by now.