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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 a dynamic index


We will query the World database and retrieve all Countries for which the Area field is greater than or equal to 1000000. Before creating this query, you will import the Countries.csv file into the World database. After that, you will visualize how RavenDB will perform this task and you will look at the RavenDB logs in the prompt window.

  1. In Management Studio, import the Countries.csv file into the World database.

  2. Create a new Visual Studio project, name it RavenDB_Ch04.

  3. Add a new class, name it City and complete it as follows:

  4. Add a new class named Country and make it look as follows:

  5. Add the RavenDB DocumentStore initialization to the Main() method using the following code snippet:

    Note

    The World database has been created in Chapter 2, RavenDB Management Studio.

  6. Add this query to the Main() method in the Program class using the following code snippet:

  7. Save all the files and build the solution.

  8. Open the RavenDB installation folder and launch RavenDB server...