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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

Creating an ASP.NET MVC 4 project with RavenDB


In this section, we'll introduce the World application that will be our example for the rest of this chapter. The World application is a simple application which allows users to display country and city information. Although the concept of the World application is simple, we'll use it to explore steps to create an ASP.NET MVC application which uses RavenDB as a backing store.

Before you begin creating the World application, you need to ensure that your development environment is properly configured. To begin, you'll need to have Visual Studio 2012 installed.

Tip

Microsoft's Web Platform Installer includes IIS Express, SQL Server Express, SQL Server Compact, MVC, and Visual Web Developer Express. You may get more information about this tool on its official web page: http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx.

Getting connected to RavenDB

The primary goal of this step is to wrap the World application to the RavenDB instance in order to provide...