An MVC 4 application created during the first two weeks of an internship in July 2013 in Billennium by Pawel Michna and Jan Grzybowski. Its purpose is to demonstrate the functionality and ease of use of RavenDB.
Download RavenDB build from here and run two servers, one on port 8080, the other on 8081.
To do this, just copy the downloaded build and in the copy edit $RAVENHOME/Server/local.xml and set appropriate ports.
On the server on port 8080 create a database called "EU_Clients" and "Orders". During the creating of the latter one check the "Replication Bundle" option. When created go to "Orders" db settings -> replication.
In the "Url" field write http://localhost:8081, in "Database" write Orders. Click "Save Changes".
On the server on port 8081 create two databases: "Rest_Clients" and "USA_Clients".
Create also an "Orders" db and similarly as before, check the "Replication Bundle" option. In the replication settings as the Url put http://localhost:8080 and Orders as database name. Remember to save changes.
Open the project in Visual Studio (tested in VS 2012) and run the ShardingMvcDemo.
The application uses the RavenDB as a database for storing clients' and orders' information. It allows to do simple CRUD operation on both.
In this demo application we use the sharding feature. Depending from which country the client is, he is stored in one of the databases: EU_Clients, USA_Clients or Rest_Clients (notice that they are on different servers).
RavenDB makes that feature very easy to use and it works almost out of the box.
RavenDB allows also to use replication easily. Two Orders databases are on different servers. They work in a Master - Master configuration (whatever is changed in any of them - it is replicated in the other).
Our application works in the following fashion: whatever operations concerning orders are done, one of the two servers is randomly selected. This is done to lower down the load on the server.