How can I run RavenDB in a shared hosting environment?

Question

RavenDB has the ability to run in \'embedded\' mode, which as far as I understand, should allow it to be run in a shared hosting environment.

Does anyone have any id

Answer 1

Yes.

I have RavenDB running in a shared hosting environment, http://www.winhost.com/, using ASP.NET MVC 3 and RavenDB 1.0.0.371 which was released somewhere around July 2011.

My code:

public static class Store
{
    private static IDocumentStore store = createStore();

    private static EmbeddableDocumentStore createStore()
    {
        var returnStore = new EmbeddableDocumentStore();
        returnStore.DataDirectory = @"./PersistedData";
        returnStore.Initialize();
        return returnStore;
    }

    public static xxx Read(string key)
    {
        using (var session = store.OpenSession())
        {

            var anEntity = session.Query<xxx>().
                Where(item => item.key == key).Single();
            return anEntity;
        }
    }

    public static void Write(xxx)
    {
        using (var session = store.OpenSession())
        {
            session.Store(xxx);
            session.SaveChanges();
        }
    }
}

The only downside so far is I don't get the RavenDB management studio.