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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 – inserting a new document


You will add necessary code to the Main() method in the Program class to create a new Order object and insert it into the Orders database:

  1. Add the following code snippet to the Main() method:

  2. Save all the files, build and run the solution.

  3. Switch to your Management Studio, and click on the Documents tab to display documents of the Orders database and view the newly inserted document.

What just happened?

We just wrote the necessary code to insert a new order into the Orders database. Let’s take a look at the code we added to the RavenDB_Ch03 project.

You begin by opening a RavenDB session (line 33 in the previous code snippet). Again, the code is surrounded by the using statement in order to release resources when method execution ends.

Then, you create a new instance of the Order class and populate its fields with some values (lines 35 to 43). After that, we call the Store() method on the session object and pass to it the new Order object (line 44)....