Getting Started with RethinkDB

Inserting data

Before inserting documents into the database, we must create a table to hold our data. We can do this using the tableCreate() command that takes the table name as an argument. Let's create a table called people by running the following query:

r.db('test').tableCreate('people')

This query assumes you have a database called test and creates the people table within this database. If the query is successful, you will get an output similar to this:

{ "config_changes":[ { "new_val":{ "db":"test", "durability":"hard", "id":"a29447ca-1587-4b8c-86db-a7b3d5198519", "name":"people", "primary_key":"id", "shards":[ { "primary_replica":"rethinkdb1", "replicas":[ "rethinkdb1" ] } ], "write_acks":"majority" }, "old_val":null } ], "tables_created":1 ...