Ayende Rahien, author of Core NHibernate, will present Raven DB, a new—and the only—document database on the .NET platform. Part of the NoSQL movement, document databases gives you a different way of structuring and building your data. Raven DB is schema-free, JSON-based, Linq enabled data store, supporting very efficient searching. In this talk, we will put Raven DB on the spotlight, examine what it can do and what sort of scenarios it is applicable for.

1. Raven DBThe launch Oren Eini aka AyendeRahien ayende@ayende.com http://ayende.com/Blog

3. What is it? Document Database .NET Linq MEF Fast

4. Document Database is… Documents JSON or derivatives XML Schema free Documents are independent Non relational

5. Examples

6. Why? Schema free User generated content Storing full complex object graphs Low overhead - Usually operate on a single document One read, one write Fast Known format means the database can do interesting things with it…

7. Indexing Order in schema free world Materialized views Built on the background Allow stale reads Don’t slow down CRUD ops

8. Extensibility

9. MVC Music Store New sample Ported to Raven Took ~6 hours But it also included writing 13 blog posts Part of Raven’s samples

10. Sharding

11. Replication

12. Event Sourcing Should we even be on this slide?

13. More information http://ravendb.net http://groups.google.com/group/ravendb/