{"id":1706,"date":"2011-06-23T21:15:05","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T20:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamlor.info\/wordpress\/?p=1706"},"modified":"2021-07-03T13:32:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T12:32:58","slug":"first-steps-with-reavendb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gamlor.info\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/first-steps-with-reavendb\/","title":{"rendered":"First Steps with RavenDB"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ok, I’m starting another blog post series about a database. This time it is RavenDB<\/a>, a document database. RavenDB is one of my favorite databases. In my opinion RavenDB has a very compelling combination of features. It stores JSON documents, supports transactions, it has very interesting query\/indexing strategy (more in a later post), a well designed client-site API and good tooling. The only big drawback and yet a strength is that RavenDB was specifically designed for the .NET platform.<\/p>\n

\"Introducing:<\/a>

Introducing: RavenDB <\/p><\/div>\n

Downloading \/ Installing Raven DB<\/h2>\n

You can download RavenDB here<\/a>. It\u2019s just a zip-file which you can unzip at any location. After that you can just run the \u2018Start.bat\u2019-file. It will start up RavenDB and open the administration console in the browser. That\u2019s it, you have a RavenDB server running.<\/p>\n

Adding Raven to you Solution<\/h2>\n

The next step is to add the client API to your solution. You either can reference the assemblies which are shipped with the RavenDB download. The \u2018Client\u2019-folder contains the assemblies for .NET 4.0, the \u2018Client 3.5\u2019-folder for .NET 3.5 and the \u2018Silverlight\u2019 folder Silverlight 4.0. Even better you can use NuGet and grab the \u2018RavenDB\u2019 package.<\/p>\n

Storing Documents<\/h2>\n

First let\u2019s create a class which we want to store. Like this person class:<\/p>\n