Indexes are a very important part of RavenDB. Without them you couldn’t find your documents. But before I can show how they are created and used I have to explain the Map/Reduce algorithm. Map/Reduce is used for processing large amounts of data and was invented at Google. You can find many explanations and even more …
If you use RavenDB in your application you may find the one or other bottleneck. In that case the book “RavenDB High Performance” from Brian Ritchie (@brian_ritchie) may be a good read for you. It is full of practical advice about optimizing your application and getting the most out of RavenDB. Disclaimer: Packt send me …
Yesterday I was at the Soft-Shake conference in Geneva to speak about RavenDB. Soft-Shake is a multi-disciplinary conference with a wide range of topics. In 9 parallel tracks you could see presentations about agile software development, functional programming, Big Data, Java, Microsoft and many more. The mixture of different technologies and languages was refreshing and …
Documents are the most important part of a document oriented database like RavenDB. Without those documents you can’t do anything. To know how to design them is therefore a skill you really must learn to work effectively with RavenDB. The good news first: Most of the things you know on how to build software and …
RavenDB is not only useful when you have a .Net project. When you can send a HTTP-Request you have all you need. The HTTP API provides all of the daily used commands in a web friendly way. There are however some commands that are not fully supported. Should you need them you can always fall …
The four basic operations of persistent storage are CRUD (Create, Read, Update and Delete). With those operations you can manage the full lifecycle of an object from its creation till you destroy it. In RavenDB you can use the .Net Client or the HTTP API. Today we will use C# and a Console Application to …
Refactoring is a technique I often use but know I still have a lot to learn, especially when I see a presentation like Therapeutic Refactoring. So I was very excited when the organizers of the Barcelona Ruby Conference announced the pre-conference workshop “Refactoring Rails Applications” by JumpstartLab. It may sound strange to attend a refactoring …
There are many ways to install RavenDB. Depending on your needs you can run it in the embedded mode, as a standalone server or integrate it into your ASP.Net application. When trying something new I like to start with a known working state. Therefore I recommend using the standalone installation of the RavenDB server for …
RavenDB is a very powerful and capable database that let you store documents. Over the next few weeks I will present you what I like so much about RavenDB, how you can use it and how NoSQL can change the way you think about the persistence layer. This post is part of the RavenDB series. …