One of the changes that we made in RavenDB 4.2 is a pretty radical one, even if we didn’t really talk about it. It is the fact that RavenDB now contains C code. Previously, we were completely managed (with a bunch of P/Invoke) calls. But we now we have some C code in the project. The question is why?
The answer isn’t actually about performance or the power of native C code. We are usually pretty happy with the kind of assembly instructions that we can get from C#. The actual problem was that we needed a proper abstraction. At this moment, RavenDB is running on the following platforms: