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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 – running RavenDB as an IIS application


You will, manually install and run RavenDB as an IIS application. This application will use its own application pool and will run in its own security context. Then, you will open Management Studio to access RavenDB:

  1. Open your Computer Management Console, add a new user called RavenDB, and make it a member of the IIS_IUSRS group.

  2. Open the Internet Information Services Manager.

  3. Right-click on the Application Pools node and choose Add Application Pool....

  4. Name the new application pool RavenDBApplicationPool, select .NET Framework v4.0.30319, and click on the OK button:

  5. Right-click on the Sites node then choose Add Website... and name it RavenDBAppli.

  6. Set the Application pool to RavenDBApplicationPool.

  7. Set the Physical path of the IIS site to the ~\web directory of the RavenDB installation folder and the Binding Port to 8080 (if available).

  8. Click on the Connect As... button and set the credentials to the RavenDB account you just created:

  9. Click on...