<h2>RaptorDB</h2><br/><div style="overflow-x:auto"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><head><meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><meta name="copyright" content="(C) Copyright 2025" /><meta name="DC.rights.owner" content="(C) Copyright 2025" /><meta name="generator" content="DITA-OT" /><meta name="DC.type" content="concept" /><meta name="DC.title" content="RaptorDB" /><meta name="abstract" content="RaptorDB, the new ServiceNow database, optimizes Now Platform workloads, enabling your organization to support more users, workflows, and data on a single platform." /><meta name="description" content="RaptorDB, the new ServiceNow database, optimizes Now Platform workloads, enabling your organization to support more users, workflows, and data on a single platform." /><meta name="DC.creator" content="ServiceNow" /><meta name="DC.date.created" content="2024-07-15T15:28:37-04:00" /><meta name="DC.date.modified" content="2025-01-30" /><meta name="DC.format" content="XHTML" /><meta name="DC.identifier" content="raptordb" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../CSS/commonltr.css" /><title>RaptorDB</title></head><body id="raptordb"> <h1 class="title topictitle1" id="ariaid-title1"><span class="ph">RaptorDB</span></h1> <div class="body conbody"><p class="shortdesc"><span class="ph">RaptorDB</span>, the new <span class="ph">ServiceNow</span> database, optimizes <span class="ph">Now Platform</span> workloads, enabling your organization to support more users, workflows, and data on a single platform.</p> <p class="p"></p><div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"><iframe class="iframe embed-responsive-item" id="raptordb__vimeo-object-tmp_mpc_1fc" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/1075474494?h=8fecf1b432&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479"></iframe></div> <div class="p"><span class="ph">RaptorDB</span> will underpin <span class="ph">Now Platform</span> core services, applications, and data.<div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:</span> The roll-out of <span class="ph">RaptorDB</span> is not tied to your organization's upgrade to <span class="ph">Yokohama</span>. Please speak with your account team for more information.</div> </div> <div class="section" id="raptordb__section_zg1_lwt_bcc"><h2 class="title sectiontitle">Benefits</h2> <p class="p">With <span class="ph">RaptorDB</span>, your organization gets the benefits of database features owned and maintained by <span class="ph">ServiceNow</span>, as well as optimized for <span class="ph">ServiceNow</span> applications and workloads. This enables your organization to confidently grow your use of the <span class="ph">Now Platform</span> over time.</p> <p class="p"> <span class="ph">RaptorDB Professional</span> unlocks additional functionality and higher performance, allowing your organization to do even more with <span class="ph">ServiceNow</span>.</p> </div> <div class="section" id="raptordb__section_tlf_nwt_bcc"><h2 class="title sectiontitle"><span class="ph">RaptorDB Standard</span> and <span class="ph">RaptorDB Professional</span></h2> <p class="p"><span class="ph">RaptorDB Standard</span> is the target state default primary database, built to provide improved scale and performance capabilities for <span class="ph">Now Platform</span> workloads and queries. </p> <p class="p">If your organization is looking to drive ultra-scale and high performance to support <span class="ph">Now Platform</span> generative AI and machine-scale data use cases, user growth, applications, workloads, and analytics, you may wish to leverage <span class="ph">RaptorDB Professional</span>. <span class="ph">RaptorDB Professional</span> is a licensed database; for more information, contact your account team.</p> <div class="tablenoborder"><table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="" id="raptordb__table_sqh_5rj_pzb" class="table" frame="border" border="1" rules="all"><caption><span class="tablecap"><span class="table--title-label">Table 1. </span><span class="ph">RaptorDB Standard</span> and <span class="ph">RaptorDB Professional</span> feature comparison</span></caption><colgroup><col /><col /><col /></colgroup><thead class="thead" style="text-align:left;"><tr class="row"><th class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d1053228e155">Feature</th><th class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d1053228e158"><span class="ph">RaptorDB Standard</span></th><th class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d1053228e162"><span class="ph">RaptorDB Professional</span></th></tr></thead><tbody class="tbody"><tr class="row"><td class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d1053228e155 ">Optimized for <span class="ph">ServiceNow</span> workloads</td><td class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d1053228e158 ">Yes</td><td class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d1053228e162 ">Yes</td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d1053228e155 ">Improved response time</td><td class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d1053228e158 ">Yes</td><td class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d1053228e162 ">Yes</td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d1053228e155 ">Ultra-scale performance and scalability</td><td class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d1053228e158 ">No</td><td class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d1053228e162 ">Yes</td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d1053228e155 ">Enhanced analytics with built-in column store</td><td class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d1053228e158 ">No</td><td class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d1053228e162 ">Yes</td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d1053228e155 ">Advanced instance topology support</td><td class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d1053228e158 ">No</td><td class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d1053228e162 ">Yes</td></tr></tbody></table> </div> </div> </div> </body></html></div>