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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

Introducing the RavenDB Management Studio


The RavenDB Management Studio that comes with RavenDB is a Silverlight based application which is used to manage the RavenDB server. It is a very useful tool to look at the server databases and the activity logs to understand what's going on at the server-side. With the Management Studio, we can create new databases and new documents; we can modify data directly if we need to. Also, when using RavenDB, this will be very handy in debugging and application development.

The main Management Studio user interface has a few different tabs on the top: Documents, Collections, Indexes, Patch, Alerts, and Logs. We can use these tabs to access the different screens and manage different parts of the database server. There is a New button list; by clicking on the arrow of the New button, there are several options shown such as: create a new Document, create a new Index, or create a new Dynamic Query. On selecting and clicking on one of these options, the respective...