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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 – querying an Index


We will learn to query the TotalOrdersPerCustomer index we have created in the previous section and visualize the query result.

  1. In the Management Studio, select the Indexes tab and click on it to display the Indexes screen.

  2. Click on the TotalOrdersPerCustomer index from the indexes list in order to execute the index and display its result in the Query Index screen.

  3. In the Query Index screen, click on the Query Options button and check the Index Entries to show the index entries instead of the matching documents.

What just happened?

We just queried the TotalOrdersPerCustomer index and modified queries display options to customize the result display. We did this in order to show the index entries instead of the matching documents.

At the bottom of the Results section, there are displayed some statistics and metadata about the query that just has been executed.

Editing an Index

Editing an index in the Management Studio means to bring up the C# code of the Map/Reduce...