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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

Doing more with the Management Studio


The RavenDB Management Studio is a great tool with almost everything you need right at your fingertips. Beyond displaying documents, collections, and indexes, it allows you to manage them. You can delete a document, a collection, an index, or copy data to and from the clipboard. Also, you can customize your views by choosing the columns you want to display.

Choosing the columns

Columns are a part of the Management Studio's Documents screen which is used to display database documents in the Details view mode. You may be familiar with this view type in your Documents screen. The Management Studio allows you to add or remove columns to further customize your views (columns are also referred to as fields).

Columns can be bound to properties just like you would in code or a particular item in an array (using an index and square brackets). Also, you can bind column to a document metadata or bind directly to the JSON Document object using an XAML binding syntax...