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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 – importing external data using a CSV file


You will create a new database called World and populate it with external data which you will import using a CSV text file.

  1. In the Management Studio, click on the Databases link to show the Database screen.

  2. Click on the New Database button to open the Create New Database wizard form, then create a new database named World.

  3. Click on the Tasks tab to show the Tasks screen.

  4. Click on the CSV Import toolbar button, this will show the CSV Import screen which contains a CSV Import button.

  5. Click on the CSV Import button and select the Cities.csv file (which is a part of the book companion package files).

  6. Click on the Documents tab or the Collections tab to verify that the database has been populated with new 3051 documents.

What just happened?

We just created a new database named World. Then using the Import CSV feature, we imported the Cities.csv file and populated the database we just created.

Note

The World database will be used and enhanced...