RavenDB Storage Provider for Orleans

Orleans is a distributed computing framework for .NET. It allows you to build distributed systems with ease, taking upon itself all the state management, persistence, distribution, and concurrency.The core aspect in Orleans is the notion of a “grain” - a lightweight unit of computation & state. You can read more about it in Microsoft’s documentation, but I assume that if you are reading this post, you are already at least somewhat familiar with it.We now support using RavenDB as the backing store for grain persistence, reminders, and clustering. You can read the official announcement about the release here, and the docs covering how to use RavenDB & Microsoft Orleans.You can use RavenDB to persist and retrieve Orleans grain states, store Orleans timers and reminders, as well as manage Orleans cluster membership. RavenDB is well suited for this task because of its asynchronous nature, schema-less design, and the ability to automatically adjust itself to different loads on the fly.If you are using Orleans, or even just considering it, give it a spin with RavenDB. We would love your feedback.

May 5, 2025 - 14:47

Orleans is a distributed computing framework for .NET. It allows you to build distributed systems with ease, taking upon itself all the state management, persistence, distribution, and concurrency.

The core aspect in Orleans is the notion of a “grain” - a lightweight unit of computation & state. You can read more about it in Microsoft’s documentation, but I assume that if you are reading this post, you are already at least somewhat familiar with it.

We now support using RavenDB as the backing store for grain persistence, reminders, and clustering. You can read the official announcement about the release here, and the docs covering how to use RavenDB & Microsoft Orleans.

You can use RavenDB to persist and retrieve Orleans grain states, store Orleans timers and reminders, as well as manage Orleans cluster membership.

RavenDB is well suited for this task because of its asynchronous nature, schema-less design, and the ability to automatically adjust itself to different loads on the fly.

If you are using Orleans, or even just considering it, give it a spin with RavenDB. We would love your feedback.