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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

Connecting to RavenDB


To begin using RavenDB we need to get a new instance of the DocumentStore object, which points to the server and acts as the main communication channel manager.

Once a new instance of DocumentStore has been created, the next step is to create a new session against that Document Store. The session object is responsible for implementing the Unit of Work pattern. A Unit of Work keeps track of everything you do during a business transaction that can affect the database. When you’re done, it figures out everything that needs to be done to alter the database as a result of your work.

The session object is used to interact with RavenDB and provides a fully transactional way of performing database operations, and allows the consumer to store data into the database, and load it back when necessary using queries or by document ID.

In order to perform an action against the RavenDB store, we need to ensure that we have an active and valid RavenDB session before starting the action...