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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

Summary


We learned a lot in this chapter about RavenDB's RESTful API and the main REST verbs that you can use to interact with RavenDB over HTTP.

Specifically, we covered the RavenDB HTTP API REST requests basics and anatomy and introduce a third party tool, the RESTClient which we used to compose and send requests to the RavenDB server.

We learned about the main REST verbs used to address the RavenDB server over HTTP and talked about GET, PUT, POST, PATCH and DELETE requests.

Also we learned how to get multiple documents in one single remote call and how to query an index using the RavenDB HTTP API.

There are more advanced commands but we covered what will give us a good understanding if we want to query RavenDB directly from our web page or other technologies that do not use the .NET Client.

In the next chapter, we will present the basics of building an ASP.NET MVC 4 web application that uses and interacts with RavenDB. Keep reading!