August 2014
Intermediate to advanced
348 pages
9h 39m
English
CHAPTER 6
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The N1QL Query Language
As you’ve seen in the previous two chapters, you can store and retrieve documents very quickly with key-based operations and perform some pretty complex queries and aggregations with views. However, even with these two mechanisms, you are limited to finding known keys and searching in pre-defined indices within a single bucket. You can’t perform ad-hoc queries programmatically, nor can you search across multiple buckets. This is where N1QL comes to the rescue! N1QL (pronounced “nickel”) is a new query language with a familiar, SQL-like syntax. As of this writing, it is still not available in production and is ...