Multi-Document Transactions in RavenDB vs Other NoSQL Databases

“We tried using NoSQL, but we are moving to Relational Databases because they are easier…”

This is how Oren Eini starts his post about RavenDB support for multi-document transactions and the lack of it from MongoDB:

1. For a single server, we support atomic multi document writes natively. (note that this isn’t the case for Mongo even for a single server).
2. For multiple servers, we strongly recommend that your sharding strategy will localize documents, meaning that the actual update is only happening on a single server.
3. For multi server, multi document atomic updates, we rely on distributed transactions.

In the NoSQL space, there are a couple of other solutions that support transactions:

• Google Megastore
• Redis has two mechanisms that come close to transactions: MULTI/EXEC/DISCARD and pipelining —this one is exemplified in this Redis based triplestore database implementation
• many of the graph databases (Neo4j, HyperGraphDB, InfoGrid)

If you look at these from the perspective of distributed systems, the only distributed ones that support transactions are Megastore and RavenDB. There’s also VoltDB which is all transactions. Are there any I’ve left out?

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