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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

Time for action – downloading and launching the RESTClient tool


Let us start by downloading the RESTClient tool to begin using the RavenDB HTTP API:

  1. Open your web browser and go to this URL: http://www.wiztools.org/.

  2. In the projects list click on the RESTClient link.

  3. Download the RESTClient 3.1 GUI Executable Jar file.

    Note

    At the time of writing, RESTClient v3.1 GUI was the latest version. If a newer stable release is available, you should download that version instead.

  4. Once downloaded, double-click on the JAR file to launch the RESTClient tool.

    Note

    RESTClient requires a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) to run, which might be already installed on your system. If the JRE is not present on your system, please install the latest JRE from http://www.java.com before installing and launching RESTClient.

What just happened?

We just downloaded the latest version of the open source Java application RESTClient to compose REST requests easily.

We will use this third party tool to create the HTTP requests that...