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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 – creating indexes automatically


You will create a new index definition (Countries_Population) which will return the population sum for each Country in the World database. Then you will register this index automatically within the application startup.

  1. Open the World project, create a new folder and name it Indexes.

  2. Add a new class to the Indexes folder and name it Countries_Population.

  3. Modify the Countries_Population class as follows:

  4. Modify the RavenStore class to call the CreateIndexes() method:

  5. Save the World application and press F5 to build it and run it.

What just happened?

You just modified the World application in order to automatically create the Countries_Poupulation index on the World database.

You began by creating the Countries_Poupulation index definition. This index defines a Map/Reduce function that retrieves the Population for each City Id and then aggregates them by Country Id.

Then within the RavenStore class (in World.DAL), you call the CreateIndexes() method...