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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

Doing more with the World application


We started the World application with basic features to get connected to RavenDB. In a real-world application, you may need to implement more features. In this section, we will see some new features such as paging a query result and registering indexes automatically and add them to the World application.

Creating the RavenDB Indexes automatically

As you learned in the previous chapters, the RavenDB Indexes allow you to query RavenDB efficiently and this is a powerful feature of RavenDB. Unfortunately, indexes require that you pre-define them before you can use them.

The problem with RavenDB Indexes is essentially when you need to move a RavenDB database from one location to another you may also need to move the entire database indexes to the new location.

This is where creating indexes automatically is helpful. It is also helpful when you modify your indexes definitions and want to ensure that your application uses the latest versions.

To create indexes automatically...