CHAPTER 8
Querying with N1QL
Though Couchbase Server is a NoSQL database it supports an SQL-like query language called N1QL. N1QL supports most of SQL features with additional features suitable for a document-oriented database. N1Ql’s use cases include complex queries embedded in applications, and analytics & reporting using ad-hoc queries. Unlike the fixed format of a table in a relational database, the documents stored in Couchbase Server are based on a flexible schema JSON model with nested objects and arrays. The schema-based document model of Couchbase Server requires a flexible path-based language rather than the fixed row/column structure ...
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