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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 in Embedded mode


You will now create a new application, refer the RavenDB Embedded Client, and run RavenDB in Embedded mode. Then, you will open Management Studio to access the embedded RavenDB and create a new database and explore the RavenDB data folder:

  1. Open Visual Studio, create a new Console Application project, and name it EmbeddedRavenDB.

  2. Use the NuGet Package Manager to add a reference to the RavenDB Embedded package (it will add two packages automatically, RavenDB Client and RavenDB Database).

  3. Modify the Program class to make it look like the following code snippet:

  4. Press F5 to build and run the EmbeddedRavenDB project.

  5. Open Management Studio, create a new database, and explore the server data directory.

What just happened?

You just created the EmbeddedRavenDB Visual Studio project to run RavenDB in Embedded mode.

In order to run RavenDB in Embedded mode, you refer the RavenDB Embedded assemblies using the NuGet Package Manager. Once you add the reference...