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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

Management Studio's multi-databases feature


RavenDB supports multi-databases, the Management Studio provides an easy way to create and manage new and multiple databases from the same user interface. On the left-side of the Management Studio, the toolbar shows a hyperlink button with the name of the current database we are working with. This hyperlink button is used to display the Databases screen and show the list of all the other available databases. You can shift the current database by selecting a new one from the list of available databases.

Also, we have the Settings button (the cogwheel button) which allows us to set common options for all databases and specific bundle (which is the RavenDB extensions) options.

Creating a new database

When the Management Studio is started up, it shows the Databases screen and displays the list of all hosted databases. Each database in the list is displayed in a rectangle with the number of documents that this database has. On selecting a database from...