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SitecoreData

Experiments with Sitecore running on RavenDB and MongoDB. Primary goals:

Universal DataProvider wrapper for simplifying writing data providers for Sitecore.
Read only data provider for serialized Sitecore items, intented for quick Sitecore prototyping and testing (or think TDS).
Fully production ready data providers, including support for event queue, history, blob storage, the full monty!
"Event Sourcing" stylede data providers (basically all CRUD operations is only inserts which enables some interesting data replication benefits).

Publishing to a mongo target database now works from a shell running on SQL master and core!
Transfer.aspx now transfers all versions.
The workflow workbox now works in a shell running on mongodb master and core.

See /doc/Measurements.xlsx for current performance data.

Inspiration for the MongoDB implementation came from this blog post: (http://hermanussen.eu/sitecore/wordpress/2012/05/making-sitecore-faster-with-mongodb/), big thanks to Robin Hermanussen for getting me inspired to trying out MongoDB!

This is tested with Sitecore 6.4.1 rev. 110324 and Sitecore 6.5.0 rev. 120427.

Clone
Place Sitecore.Kernel.dll in \lib\Sitecore\
Configure (connection strings, data folder etc. setup IIS website with clean Sitecore installation) and build
Deploy (Use build configuration "Debug with Publish" and a deploycommand.xml pointing to above IIS website)
Run /Transfer.aspx

Please do :)