The next version of RavenDB will have some exiting new features. Beside many optimisations, improvements and new functionality you will get a new RavenDB Management Studio. Dropping Silverlight is only one of many improvements you will notice. Let’s have a look on what is changed and how much still works as expected. This post is …
Changes in the application often result in modifications of underlying data structure. Properties need to be added, removed or renamed when your application adapt to the new business needs. Today you will see how RavenDB handles this use case and how this differs to a relational database. This post is part of the RavenDB series. …
Paging of a query result is something you normally think about when your application gets really slow. This seldom occurs while developing (you don’t have enough data to feel the pain) therefore the unpleasant surprise wait until your application is in production. And trust me, to add paging as a hotfix while your users can’t …
Just by using a non-relational database your data doesn’t stop to be related. Therefore you must find a way to express a relation even if your database can’t enforce such constraints. What is true for most NoSQL solutions is (for once) also true for RavenDB. As explained in Designing Documents for RavenDB your documents should …
In a relational database you work most of the time with a set of rows. This fundamental concept gives SQL its power and flexibility. You use this in every SELECT and when you have to update or delete many rows at once. To delete all orders with an id less than 100 you can write …
Whenever you search for documents in RavenDB you are using an index. Therefore indexes are a topic you must understand to effectively use RavenDB. The algorithm behind is Map/Reduce and was explained in an earlier post. This post is part of the RavenDB series. You can find the other parts here: Part 1: Introducing RavenDB: …
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 …