Are indexes in RavenDB and relational database indexs works the same?

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I am quite new of RavenDB and I am trying to understand how indexes works in RavenDB. I found a very good explanation on relational database indexing from this" How does database indexing work?" . But i was wondering are the indexes in RavenDB works the same as the relational database's indexes ?

Thanks.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 15 '12 at 14:58

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Kekewong, No, they work in drastically different fashion. They are built in the background, offer full text search support, and are stored using a different format than most db indexes.

answered May 15 '12 at 14:58

Ayende Rahien

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Is there any external resources or links that i can read about how it works? – kekewong May 15 '12 at 15:10
@kekewong: I'd look [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2602253/how-does-lucene-index-documents). – configurator May 15 '12 at 17:31

Are indexes in RavenDB and relational database indexs works the same?

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