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RavenDB 2.x Beginner's Guide

By : Khaled Tannir
Book Image

RavenDB 2.x Beginner's Guide

By: Khaled Tannir

Overview of this book

RavenDB is a second generation document database written in .NET, offering a flexible data model designed to address requirements coming from real-world systems. It is different from the other document databases around, as with RavenDB you can get up and running in a few minutes, and that includes grasping all the basics. It allows you to build high-performance, low-latency applications with ease and efficiency.RavenDB 2.x Beginner's Guide introduces RavenDB concepts and teaches you everything, right from installing RavenDB, to creating documents, and querying indexes. This book will help you take advantage of powerful, document-oriented NoSQL databases and build a solid foundation on which you can create your .NET applications. This book presents RavenDB, the .NET document-oriented NoSQL database, through a series of clear and practical exercises that will help you to take advantage of this database server. The book starts off with an introduction to RavenDB and its Management Studio. You will then move ahead and learn how to quickly and efficiently build high performance, NoSQL document-oriented .NET applications using the .NET client API or the HTTP REST API. Next, Dynamic and static indexes that use map/reduce to process datasets are covered. You will then see how to create and query these indexes, with the help of detailed examples. You will also learn how to deploy your RavenDB server in a production environment and how to optimize and secure it.With numerous practical examples, RavenDB 2.x Beginner's Guide teaches you everything you need to know for building high performance .NET document-oriented NoSQL databases.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
RavenDB 2.x Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 1. Getting Started with RavenDB

In this chapter, you will learn about RavenDB database server which is a document-oriented database and belongs to the NoSQL database family. RavenDB is an open source software and it does not use SQL language to manipulate data, but it stores what we call "Documents".

You will start by learning briefly the basics of NoSQL databases, to be familiar with its concepts, and then you will learn about document-oriented databases and the JSON format (JavaScript Object Notation). Before you can start working with RavenDB, we have to set up an environment with system requirements, where you can test and play around with, to get familiar with RavenDB. Then you will go forward by learning how to launch RavenDB and its embedded management tool the RavenDB Management Studio and understanding the basic configuration file application key settings.

Once RavenDB is installed and running, you will learn to open the Management Studio to access the database and create some sample data. Then we will move forward and learn how to shut down the RavenDB server in the Console mode.

In this chapter we will cover:

  • Basics of NoSQL databases

  • What is RavenDB and how it works

  • RavenDB documents and JSON format

  • Downloading and installing RavenDB

  • Configuring RavenDB

  • Running RavenDB in the Console mode