--- title: RavenDB Reviews meta\_title: 'RavenDB Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 14 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how RavenDB works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.4 review\_count: 14 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: NoSQL Databases url: https://www.g2.com/categories/nosql-databases --- # RavenDB Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by RavenDB but has limited features. Are you part of the RavenDB team? [Upgrade your plan](https://my.g2.com/ravendb/upgrade?utm_campaign=s3&utm_medium=claim-popup&utm_source=g2) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! RavenDB is a fully ACID-compliant, multi-model NoSQL document database designed for developers building high-performance, distributed applications. It delivers fast reads and writes, native full-text and vector search for AI workloads, and automatic indexing for low-latency queries. With real-time data replication, horizontal scaling, built-in data encryption, and seamless cloud or on-premise deployment options, RavenDB supports mission-critical systems with minimal operational overhead. Trusted by over 12,000 organizations—including Toyota, Verizon, and Rakuten Kobo—RavenDB is ideal for teams that need a reliable, developer-friendly database for microservices, cloud-native architectures, and AI-powered search. * * * Seller [RavenDB](https://www.g2.com/sellers/ravendb) Discussions [RavenDB Community](https://www.g2.com/products/ravendb/discuss) Languages Supported English Overview by Elke Aronson Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Amazon DynamoDB](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Amazon DynamoDB") Amazon DynamoDB 4.4/5(529) ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-web-services-aws-amazon-dynamodb/reviews) [ ![MongoDB Atlas](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "MongoDB Atlas") MongoDB Atlas 4.5/5(900) ](https://www.g2.com/products/mongodb-atlas/reviews) [ ![Arango](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Arango") Arango 4.6/5(115) ](https://www.g2.com/products/arango/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/ravendb/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 14 real user reviews. [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ## RavenDB Integrations (1) What do users say about integrations? Integration information sourced from real user reviews. [ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") ChatGPT ](https://www.g2.com/products/chatgpt/reviews) Show More ![Georgios D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Georgios D.") GD Georgios D. Software Engineer/Architect and CEO Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/5/2025 "Feature-Rich Database That Simplifies Our Tech Stack" 5/5 What do you like best about RavenDB? This is a well-designed database that includes change tracking, unit of work and other patterns that make a developer's job easier and faster. It offers a range of features that can help you eliminate the need for other products in your stack. For example, you can use data subscriptions in place of an external queue, which helps to reduce overall complexity and the number of moving parts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about RavenDB? Would be great to support creation of databases and certificates through terraform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is RavenDB solving and how is that benefiting you? Modeling complex data structures and indexes that integrate information from multiple sources and perform various calculations is straightforward. Additionally, the ability to respond to changes through data subscriptions is very useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Our network of Icons are G2 members who are recognized for their outstanding contributions and commitment to helping others through their expertise.G2 IconValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Arild H.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Arild H.") AH Arild H. User Experience Architect Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/16/2023 "Super fast and easy NOSQL database with support for SQL (RQL)" 5/5 What do you like best about RavenDB? Very easy to get started. Integrates very nicely with C# .net applications. Fast and helpful customer support. Grat dashboard for debugging and monitoring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about RavenDB? Smaller community than competition makes it harder to find solutions to problems on line, but the documentation is usually very good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is RavenDB solving and how is that benefiting you? Fast access to data. We use RavenDB as the read-layer for our application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Christopher L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Christopher L.") CL Christopher L. Software Developer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/8/2021 "RavenDb is powerful, convenient and easy to use. Excellent!" 5/5 What do you like best about RavenDB? Easy to learn and use, really helpful built in features (e.g. auto indexes, full text search), convenient, secure, good documentation, excellent LINQ integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about RavenDB? Can sometimes be difficult to find community answers / best practices / discussions, however the documentation is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering RavenDB: If you want a NoSQL database then I highly recommend Raven, especially if you are using .Net. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is RavenDB solving and how is that benefiting you? We have been developing a sports management system with RavenDb as our sole database. It has provided a great developer experience, which ultimately has had a positive effect on developer output, happiness and overall product quality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Kreso J.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Kreso J.") KJ Kreso J. Senior Software Developer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/5/2021 "The best database I ever used" 5/5 What do you like best about RavenDB? It is easy to use, fast and can be easily scaled in the cloud or on prem. The way how indexes are auto managed and all possibilities with indexes are providing many options for developers that are not possible or easy to achieve with other databases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about RavenDB? Recent versions of RavenDB do not have a thing I dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is RavenDB solving and how is that benefiting you? I am building a microservice application that is hosted in Azure. RavenDB database is easy ro spin up and I very much rely on subscriptions feature for communication amon services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Retail](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Retail") AR Verified User in Retail Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 2/2/2021 "I found RavenDB to be a great document db with a very low barrier of entry." 4/5 What do you like best about RavenDB? The best thing about it was the low barrier to entry. The concepts to get started are simple, the C# client is easy and complete. I did not have to worry about complex key requirements and such which I had when starting up with other document stores like DynamoDb. Notable mention is the map reduce that you can do with C# code, that was really powerful. The management studio was also an added advantage, really intuitive to use and very powerful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about RavenDB? Once in a while the indexing just seemed to fail. I have noticed there are now some indexing extensions on nuget that I was not familiar with before and wondering if those could have helped back then. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering RavenDB: I think RavenDB is a great choice, especially for those entering document databases for the first time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is RavenDB solving and how is that benefiting you? We needed a easy and fast way to retrieve and store data. We did not have any complex queries/requirements to fetch data and a document store was the best for us. We realized great performance and the code required to store and fetch data was simple and reusable making the team efficient in that regard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Vishwanatha G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Vishwanatha G.") VG Vishwanatha G. Senior Software Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/27/2021 "Good product to go with.." 3.5/5 What do you like best about RavenDB? We have used Raven db in our Configuration Price Quatation(CPQ) Project to store the relevent data. It was easy to access and manage. I personally liked the report pulling APIs exposed by Raven DB. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about RavenDB? Some times the performance is slower if the data stored is huge Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is RavenDB solving and how is that benefiting you? It was very effective and efficient in storing hude set of data as comoared to usaul SQL. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Alexander T.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Alexander T.") AT Alexander T. Senior Software Developer (.NET) Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/10/2021 "RavenDb is easy to work with" 4/5 What do you like best about RavenDB? It has a free version for local development. It provides an easy to use Admin interface to manage the local cluster. It has good integration with .NET (Core). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about RavenDB? On my part I was still learning how to handle indexes and their documentation helped. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is RavenDB solving and how is that benefiting you? Building a form engine where the form data was defined using a json file. RavenDb was a good alternative to other NoSQL databases because it had good integration with C# .NET. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Hospital & Health Care](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Hospital & Health Care") CH Verified User in Hospital & Health Care Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/7/2021 "We used in our major project. And the experience was really good. Even the support is also quick." 4.5/5 What do you like best about RavenDB? Flexibility, Easiness and documentation available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about RavenDB? I felt sometime it works slow. Even raised concern too earlier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering RavenDB: If you looking for easy to setup, easy to understand and great support then RavenDB is good option. Try it out you will like it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is RavenDB solving and how is that benefiting you? We used it as nosql db and primary database for our website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/19/2021 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Open source operational and transactional enterprise NoSQL documents database" 4.5/5 What do you like best about RavenDB? It is open source and deploy fully managed RavenSB cloud database in minutes on AWS,Azure available on almost all operating system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about RavenDB? Very few programming language are supported and as it is new so chances of issue with it high and very less information available on internet Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is RavenDB solving and how is that benefiting you? ERP related project so lots of calculation was required and it is fast and coding is easy for supported language Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/5/2021 "Ravendb has good performance and easy to implement" 4/5 What do you like best about RavenDB? Multiple connection and DI to implement and store concept Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about RavenDB? GUI not much friendly to query and handle Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is RavenDB solving and how is that benefiting you? For Sharepoint migration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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