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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

Anatomy of the RavenDB REST request URL


REST requests are URL-based. In order to get or put any document in RavenDB, we will basically create a request and use a RavenDB target structure. Then we will specify what type of entity it is and the document ID or the data to be sent to the server within the URL. To create the RavenDB REST request, we will make a request to a specific URL that will look like:

  • url: This represents the URL where RavenDB is running.

  • port: This is the TCP port number, by default the port number is 8080.

  • databaseName: This is the name of the database where the documents are stored.

  • target: This represents the target structure in RavenDB we want to deal with. This might be the docs structure, the indexes structure, the queries structure, and so on.

  • RequestData: This represents the data resources for the request. It might be the document ID on which the action is performed (create, retrieve, update, or delete) or all other data needed to perform the action.