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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 and IIS


RavenDB supports running as an IIS application, or from an IIS virtual directory under an IIS application. IIS stands for Internet Information Services, and it is a secure and scalable web server provided with Windows operating systems.

When running RavenDB as an IIS application or from a virtual directory, it can be managed from the IIS Manager, and you may use the IIS management tool to configure, start, stop, and restart the web application.

Running RavenDB on IIS offers the full benefits of being managed in IIS, which allows you to set memory limits, monitor via standard tools, use SSL, and so on.

In IIS mode, RavenDB uses configuration from the Web.config file in the physical directory to which the directory is mapped as well as in any child directories in that physical directory.

Running RavenDB from an IIS virtual directory

A virtual directory is a path that you specify in IIS and map to a physical directory on a local or remote server. Then, this path becomes a part of...