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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 – running RavenDB as a Windows Service


You will now manually install and run RavenDB as a Windows Service using the command line. Then, you will verify that it appears in the Windows Services Management Console, from where you can stop and restart it:

  1. Ensure that RavenDB is not running.

  2. Open a new command prompt window using administrator privileges.

  3. Change your current directory to the ~\Server folder of the RavenDB installation directory.

  4. Run the Raven.Server.exe file using the /install parameter in the command line:

  5. When the install process completes, enter services.msc to open the Services Management Console.

  6. Locate the RavenDB service and ensure it is successfully installed and running:

    Tip

    The RavenDB service will start automatically after the install process terminates. To change the startup type (Automatic or Manual), double-click on the RavenDB service in the Services Console Management and change it to the desired type from the Startup Type drop-down list.

  7. Open RavenDB Management...