RavenDB Open source 2nd generation document DB

All of our developers agree - RavenDB is one of those technologies that bring back fun into your coding even after long years of writing.

Herve Bansay, Founder, Beatman Ltd
RavenDB is a great piece of technology and had a very positive impact on our workflow. The dedicated and very professional support of the core team really makes a difference.

Federico Lois, Founder, Corvalius
RavenDB just rocked my world. It’s extremely approachable, even for non-database guys – it took me less than 30 minutes to get up and running.

Bryan Wheeler, Director, Platform Development, msnbc.com
As a Document DB it remains true to the core principles of these type of storage mechanisms. Somehow it manages to combine the best of relational databases with that of document databases.

Hadi Hariri, JetBrains

RavenDB version 2.0. Other versions:

Running as a service

RavenDB supports running as a system service, creating its own HTTP server and processing all requests internally.

Installing the RavenDB service

Extract the zip with the build files
Go to the Server directory
Execute the following command on the command line: Raven.Server.exe /install
Note: Raven may ask you for administrator privileges while installing the service.

RavenDB is now installed and running as a service.

Uninstalling the RavenDB service

Go to the Server directory
Execute the following command on the command line: Raven.Server.exe /uninstall

The server storage and indexes will not be deleted when the server is uninstalled.

Server Configuration

Many configuration options are available for tuning RavenDB and fitting it to your needs. See the Configuration options page for complete info.

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REPLY Posted by Arun on Thursday, 21 February 2013, 09:05

I tried running #2261 as windows service on a Windows 8 machine (running virtualized on Parallels on OS X) Through the admin portal I'm unable to create a new database. I get this message - If you should have access to this operation contact your admin and check the Raven/AnonymousAccess or the Windows Authentication settings in RavenDB

I tried setting AnonymousAccess to All, but the windows security pop up shows up 3 times and then Unauthorized error message is shown.

Any idea?

REPLY Posted by Ayende Rahien on Thursday, 21 February 2013, 09:13

You can set AnonymousAccess to Admin, which will work. But basically, for those ops you need to be an administrator, and you need to login as an administrator.

REPLY Posted by Rusty on Friday, 22 February 2013, 07:10

Windows 8 Pro.

I downloaded latest stable and unzipped in my C:\RavenDB-Build-2261

Launched command prompt in admin mode.

Issued following C:\RavenDB-Build-2261\Server>Raven.Server --install

The service won't start I see following error in EventViewer

RavenDB service failed to start because of an error System.OutOfMemoryException: Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown. at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.InternalGetValue(String name, Object defaultValue, Boolean doNotExpand, Boolean checkSecurity) at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.GetValue(String name) at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceMonitor.GetData(String item) at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounterLib.GetPerformanceData(String item) at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounterLib.getCategoryTable() at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounterLib.CategoryExists(String machine, String category) at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounterCategory.Exists(String categoryName, String machineName) at Raven.Database.Indexing.WorkContext.IsValidCategory(String categoryName, Dictionary`2 instances) in c:\Builds\RavenDB-Stable\Raven.Database\Indexing\WorkContext.cs:line 341 at Raven.Database.Indexing.WorkContext.SetupPerformanceCounter(String name) in c:\Builds\RavenDB-Stable\Raven.Database\Indexing\WorkContext.cs:line 316 at Raven.Database.Indexing.WorkContext.Init(String name) in c:\Builds\RavenDB-Stable\Raven.Database\Indexing\WorkContext.cs:line 365 at Raven.Database.DocumentDatabase..ctor(InMemoryRavenConfiguration configuration) in c:\Builds\RavenDB-Stable\Raven.Database\DocumentDatabase.cs:line 231 at Raven.Server.RavenDbServer..ctor(RavenConfiguration settings) in c:\Builds\RavenDB-Stable\Raven.Server\RavenDbServer.cs:line 30 at Raven.Server.RavenService.<OnStart>b_0() in c:\Builds\RavenDB-Stable\Raven.Server\RavenService.cs:line 37

REPLY Posted by Ayende Rahien on Friday, 22 February 2013, 12:02

This is NOT the place for support questions. Please ask in the mailing list.

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