You might want to consider how well the two run on the windows server platform if you are a .net dev shop. All else being equal...
V Sent from my iPad On 2010-10-11, at 7:41 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 13:19, Oliver Boermans <[email protected]> wrote: >> A cursory dig suggests CouchDB is more mature, with a larger community >> to support it. That aside, what do you consider to be the significant >> differences? > > From a quick look at the website and the two or three posts on his > weblog about differences between Couch and Raven, I don't see much of > a material difference. The differences all seem relatively > superficial. I'm not sure what on-disk structure it uses, though, or > if it tries to keep things in memory; I suppose those are things that > matter, but I couldn't easily find them on the website. There seems to > be less emphasis on scaling across nodes than in CouchDB, and it seems > to rely heavily on LINQ (and favor other things from the .NET > technology space). Given CouchDB's community, it seems to me like > Raven would only be interesting if you are into .NET technology > already, and even then I don't really see anything that would make me > want to use it over Couch. > > Cheers, > > Dirkjan
