Posts related to the RavenDb NoSQL database, its usages, examples, challenges and projects where I used it.
RavenDb provides a push notifications mechanism, named Changes API, that allows you to receive messages from a server about events that occurred there. This mechanism makes is extremely simple to create a ChangeMonitor class that can be used with CacheItemPolicy, in order to expire cache items when something happens on the server (such as a document being … Read more
One of my RavenDB databases grew to an unrealistic size – 36GB when it contains around 500,000 documents which are mostly small. After some back-and-forth with the RavenDB support team, I was suggested to compact the database. Sounds easy, if you know what you’re doing, since documentation on that is … let’s say lacking… Here’s what you … Read more
In my previous posts, I’ve discussed how to retrieve the list of top repositories from GitHub,get the list of packages each one uses, and store all that informationin a RavenDb database. Now, it’s time to query all the data. RavenDb provides Map/Reduce indexes for querying the data. Let’s see some of the basic ones that … Read more