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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

Backing up RavenDB databases


To ensure that your sensitive data remains secure at all times against viruses, user errors, and computer crashes, and to prevent loss of important data, you need to backup the data. Backups make it simple for you to protect your data by copying and storing it somewhere other than your computer hard drive. Therefore, it is crucial to secure your files regularly so that in cases of emergency, your computer data is still accessible.

RavenDB supports backup and restore data. Backup operations are done asynchronously and can be performed while the database is online and accepting read and write requests. Using RavenDB backup and restore features has some benefits such as backing up index results, while backward compatibility is not supported and it is strict about OS compatibility between the machine on which the backup was created and the machine it was restored to.

Note

When performing RavenDB backups, you need to observe backward compatibility. RavenDB relies on...