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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 – authenticating and authorizing


RavenDB comes with built-in authentication functionality. Here, you will learn how to set it and how to grant groups or users access to the RavenDB server. Then, you will open the Raven/Authorization/WindowsSettings system document and analyze its content:

  1. In Management Studio, open the system database settings.

  2. Select the Windows Authentication node and then click on the Groups tab to show the Groups screen.

  3. Click on Add Group Settings to add new group settings.

  4. Select IIS AppPool\DefaultAppPool from the Name drop-down list and check the Enable checkbox.

  5. Click on the green plus sign to add a database access, under Databases, select the World database from the drop-down list.

  6. Save your settings.

    Note

    These settings are written to the Raven/Authorization/WindowsSettings system document.

What just happened?

You just set group authorizations to allow access to the RavenDB World database.

In order to set authorization, you open the system database settings...