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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


In this chapter we learned about creating ASP.NET MVC 4 project with RavenDB as a backing store. We created the World application which is a basic ASP.NET MVC 4 application that you can use as a base for your future development. Specially, we covered how to get connected to RavenDB and how to create a base controller to access RavenDB and handle sessions and connections.

Then we enhanced the World application by adding Models, Controllers, Views and learned how to create RavenDB indexes automatically when the application starts.

After that we learned how to page query results. We extended the application and added a page navigation bar, a Master/Details view to display all Cities related to a given Country, and the Search Cities view which allowed you to search cities by their name.

This concludes our journey of learning RavenDB. I hope you have enjoyed it as much as I did. I would encourage you to keep learning more about the topics covered in this book using the official website and...