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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 – creating a new database


To begin using the Management Studio, we need to create a new database and populate it with the sample data. In this section, you will learn to create a new database using the Management Studio wizard form.

  1. Launch the RavenDB server using the Start.cmd command file.

  2. In the Management Studio, click on the Databases link.

  3. Click on the New Database button to open the Create a New Database wizard form.

  4. Enter Orders for the Name of new database and click on the Next button to create the new database.

What just happened?

We just created a new database named Orders using the Create a New Database wizard of the Management Studio.

In steps 1 to 3, we launched the RavenDB server and opened the Create a New Database wizard to create the new database.

After clicking on the Next button, the Orders database is created. It will become the current database and will be added to the hosted databases list.

Note

If the server has no hosted database, yet the Create a New Database...