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Overview of the FaunaDB Query Language

Chris Biscardi
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Published 5 years ago
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FQL is the main query language for interacting with FaunaDB. It supports all JSON types, plus some additional types like Ref, Date, and Set. FQL is based in expressions and as such everything returns a value. This makes it easy to compose logic into larger queries.

Code shown in the shell:

Match(Index("all_customers"))
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