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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 – searching for a document


You will use the Management Studio to search the document with the ID Orders/A154230 in the Orders database to view it or to edit it.

  1. In the Management Studio, click on the Go To Document search box.

  2. Search for the document with the ID Orders/A154230 (which belongs to the Orders database).

  3. Press Enter to validate your typing and then the whole document data is loaded in the edit screen.

What just happened?

We used the Management Studio's Go To Document search box to load the document with the ID= Orders/A154230 in the edit mode.

In case that the document you are looking for does not exist in the database, you will be redirected to the Documents tab, otherwise, the Document edit page will load with the requested document.

Note that while typing suggestions will appear for you.

Exporting a database to a CSV file

In order to use your documents outside RavenDB, you can convert a RavenDB database document to a comma-separated values (CSV) text file by using...