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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

RavenDB sharding


RavenDB sharding is the way to scale-out RavenDB databases horizontally. The idea is to distribute a single logical database across the RavenDB cluster servers. Unlike replication, where each server contains a complete (replicated) copy of data, RavenDB sharding will distribute data across servers and each server will hold just a portion of the data. RavenDB supports database sharding natively and allows you to split your data across servers in an easy way.

Sharding with RavenDB is as easy as 1-2-3. All you need is a list of connection strings to identify the nodes in the shard cluster. You will also create a shard strategy which is simply a set of instructions that define which node is responsible for what data. Finally, we use the list and the strategy to create a smart client. Let's look at the classes and interfaces that can make this happen.

The ShardStrategy object allows you to customize different aspects of the sharding behavior, giving you the option of fine grained...