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Mastering RethinkDB

You're reading from   Mastering RethinkDB Master the skills of building real-time apps dramatically easier with open source, scalable database - RethinkDB

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786461070
Length 330 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Shahid Shaikh Shahid Shaikh
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Preface 1. The RethinkDB Architecture and Data Model 2. RethinkDB Query Language FREE CHAPTER 3. Data Exploration Using RethinkDB 4. Performance Tuning in RethinkDB 5. Administration and Troubleshooting Tasks in RethinkDB 6. RethinkDB Deployment 7. Extending RethinkDB 8. Full Stack Development with RethinkDB 9. Polyglot Persistence Using RethinkDB 10. Using RethinkDB and Horizon

Embedding ReQL in a programming language


RethinkDB provides client drivers for various programming languages. To explain, I am going to consider Node.js, and the steps are as follows:

  1. You can start the ReQL exploration journey by connecting to the database.

  2. Install the RethinkDB client module and make sure you have the RethinkDB server ready and running, listening to the default port.

  3. Make sure you have done npm install rethinkdb before running the following code:

          var rethinkdb = require('rethinkdb'); 
          var connection = null; 
          rethinkdb.connect({host : 'localhost', port :
                             28015},function(err,conn) { 
          if(err) {  
          throw new Error('Connection error');  
           } else { 
          connection = conn; 
           } 
           }); 
    

The preceding simple code snippet written in Node.js is importing the rethinkdb module and connecting to the RethinkDB server on the default port. It returns the callback function...

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Mastering RethinkDB
Published in: Dec 2016
Publisher: Packt
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