ReQL is the query language of RethinkDB and is used for manipulating the JSON documents in RethinDB databases. The queries are constructed automatically by calling RethinkDB's built-in chainable functions on the server-side. These functions are embedded in the driver in various programming languages JavaScript, Python, Ruby, and Java. You can check out the ReQL commands/functions at the following links:
- JavaScript at https://rethinkdb.com/api/javascript/
- Python at https://rethinkdb.com/api/python/
- Ruby at https://rethinkdb.com/api/ruby/
- Java at https://rethinkdb.com/api/java/
We will be using JavaScript in this book. Let's use the Data Explorer on the administrative UI to perform some CRUD operations by using the respective ReQL commands. You can navigate to the page where the Data Explorer is or point your browser to localhost:8080/#dataexplorer and start playing with the queries, as shown here. The default top-level namespace on the Data Explorer is r, so...
