I was interested in RethinkDB when I read the 2.0 release. But after looking at ...

coffeemug · on April 17, 2015

In RethinkDB you'd express it like this:

  r.table('catalog').filter({ details: { media_type: 2}})

Or like this:

  r.table('catalog').filter(r.row('details')('media_type').eq(2))

For most queries MongoDB syntax and RethinkDB syntax are effectively interchangeable.

SamReidHughes · on April 17, 2015

What do you do when a document has a period in its key?

justrudd · on April 17, 2015

Restrictions on Field Names Field names cannot contain dots (i.e. .) or null characters, and they must not start with a dollar sign