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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 – viewing the database's active bundles


We will take a look at the World database's Settings page.

  1. In the Management Studio, click on the Databases link to display the Databases screen.

  2. Select the World database and right-click on it to show the contextual menu, then choose Edit Settings.

    Tip

    The Edit Database Settings button (the cogwheel button) opens the Settings page for the current database.

What just happened?

We just opened the Settings screen for the World database and viewed its content.

You can see the different setting parameters as the database folder and active bundles for the database.

When creating a new database, the PeriodicBackup bundle is activated by default for the new database. The Raven/ActiveBundles metadata key indicates the list of all the activated bundles when the database is created. In this case we did not activate any other bundles.

The System database settings

The settings for the System database are different from the other databases. It is possible...