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Getting Started with OrientDB

By : Claudio Tesoriero
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Getting Started with OrientDB

By: Claudio Tesoriero

Overview of this book

<p>In modern software applications, often there is the necessity to manage very big amounts of unstructured data with varying schema. In this scenario, instead of relational databases, we can use OrientDB, an open source NoSQL DBMS written in Java. Inspite ofDespite being a document-based database, the relationships are managed with direct connections between records. It supports schema-less, schema-full, and schema-mixed modes.</p> <p>Getting Started with OrientDB will be your handy, quick reference guide, for all document-graph DBMS functionality. Administrative tasks, deployment, designing a database, different ways of querying and consuming data - all that you need to know about OrientDB is presented keeping with practical usage in mind. You will be able to install, setup, deploy, and configure databases with OrientDB for applications.</p> <p>Getting Started with OrientDB will allow you to use its OreintDB’s main functionality immediately. The book will guide you through the discovery of one of the most powerful NoSQL databases available today. It will then take you through downloading and installing OrientDB, cluster deployment, programming, discovering OrientDB’s potential, and its features.</p> <p>The book covers useful administrative topics such as import/export, automatic backups, and configuration tips. Furthermore, design concepts like user management, document databases, graph databases, and dictionaries are covered. Finally, concepts and programming examples are shown in Java.</p>
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

The OrientDB Studio


OrientDB comes with a powerful web-based GUI console.

It is embedded in the server. So, to access to it, all you have to do is to start your browser and open the following link:

http://<OrientDB-host>:2480

If you are running the server on localhost you can access through the following link:

http://localhost:2480

The port 2480 is defined in the XML config file and can be changed.

As you can see, you can choose an existing database or even create a new one. You could also log in as root and access a special section for the server management. Select the demo database and connect as admin.

After you log in you can see a toolbar in the top of the screen. Through the toolbar placed on the top of the screen, you can change section and access the Studio features. The first one is the Database section, which is the default one.

The Database section

The Database section looks as follows:

As you can see in the preceding screenshot, the screen is split into the following subsections...