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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

RavenDB server bundles


The default RavenDB distribution package includes basic features. More advanced functionality can be installed with bundles. RavenDB bundles are used to plugin new features to the RavenDB server and enhance the server capabilities. They can be used to adjust many aspects of the server behavior to meet a user's needs. RavenDB bundles enable those features and extensions dynamically without the need to rebuild the server or require any specific knowledge in bundle development.

RavenDB package distribution includes several out-of-the-box bundles such as authorization, documents versioning, documents expiration, or cascade delete functionality, as well as many others which are shipped in the ~\Bundles folder of the package. Basically, RavenDB bundles can be added selectively to a specific database and are activated while creating a new database, and they cannot be removed afterward.

RavenDB bundles are .NET assemblies and are easy to install. By default, RavenDB searches...