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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

Bundles


RavenDB database supports extensibility and new features can be implemented by a user to meet their needs, if it has not been already implemented by RavenDB. This is where Bundles come in. Installing a Bundle is very easy and it is done by dropping the Bundle's files into the \Plugins directory of the RavenDB installation, which is the default path. The path to the Plugins folder is configurable and can be changed to another location by changing the Raven/PluginsDirectory configuration parameter.

You may choose to activate one or more Bundle a when you create a database. You will have to then set up most of the Bundles within the database creation process and they cannot be removed or added afterwards. So, Bundle's strategy has to be considered carefully and adding/removing Bundles is something that can safely happen only when the database is created and does not contain any documents. Usually, Bundles are added within the database creation process and then you configure their behavior...