While researching NoSQL databases recently, I stumbled upon Riak, found myself intrigued, and decided to dive a little deeper. The quick and dirty: Riak is a key-value, distributed database made up of multiple independent nodes which can be joined together to form Riak clusters. Generally, when data is written into a Riak cluster, it will be written to multiple nodes so that even if a single node does go down, the data will still be reachable. One of Riak’s trademarks is this focus on high availability.

As per the title: just a brief Riak intro.

Original title and link: A Brief Introduction to Riak: Links and MapReduce (NoSQL database©myNoSQL)

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One of those getting started guides that can be very helpful when first trying new technologies:

Today we are going to look at how we can use it as the only backing store of an ASP.NET MVC application. In this article, we will see how to build an ASP.NET MVC app using RavenDB Embedded and then publish it to a hosted source.

Using RavenDB as a backing store is actually very easy. In a development environment, all you have to do is install using Nuget package manager and start the Raven.Server.exe from the packages folder. However in a production environment, you may or may not be able to run an additional HTTP server for yourself. If you have a hosting provider where your site is shared with multiple other sites, you may not have the access to run a separate HTTP server. Beauty of RavenDB is that even in such a constrained environment, you can easily run RavenDB and not require SQL Server backend. RavenDB has special embedded variant that allows you to run RavenDB in medium trust.

Original title and link: RavenDB Tutorial: Building an ASP.NET MVC App Using RavenDB as a Backing Store (NoSQL database©myNoSQL)

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