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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 indexes using the ResultReduce class


We will create a new index which will aggregate the World database to make a count of Cities that have the same name in different countries and return the CountryId key for each city as a single document. The following screenshot illustrates the expected result:

  1. Start Visual Studio and open the RavenDB_CH05 solution.

  2. Add a new class to the project, name it Cities_SameName and add the following code snippet:

    Tip

    We named the embedded class ReduceResult by convention. You can choose any other name for this class and place it outside the index class.

    We could use a String type in the ReduceResult class to store the document ID CountriesId (which is a string type), but we choose to create a second embedded class, for learning purposes and show that it is possible to create more complex structure.

  3. Add a default constructor to the Cities_SameName class and within this constructor add the index Map function using the following code snippet...