Company
Date Published
Author
Keshav Murthy
Word count
235
Language
English
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None

Summary

N1QL is a query language designed for JSON data, providing developers and enterprises with an expressive and comprehensive toolset for querying, transforming, and manipulating JSON, modeled after SQL. It supports a full range of SQL-like operations including SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, and MERGE, complemented by a variety of expressions and operators. While familiarity with SQL can facilitate learning N1QL, the language requires some additional understanding due to the flexible nature of JSON. To aid this learning process, an interactive tutorial is available, allowing users to modify queries and observe results in real-time, with sections covering N1QL basics, joins, and case studies in e-commerce and social gaming. The tutorial emphasizes a hands-on approach, providing a read-only environment that enables experimentation without risk, and offers features such as query plan explanations to deepen understanding of query execution.