Introduction

What is thinky?

thinky is a light Node.js ORM for RethinkDB.

It wraps the rethinkdbdash driver and provides some extra features, like models, easy joins etc.

The goal of thinky is to make retrieving/saving/deleting joined documents from RethinkDB as easy as possible.

What are the advantages of using thinky?

• Less code to write
  • It uses rethinkdbdash so you do not have to deal with connections.
  • It provides Models and handles joins in a nice and efficient way:
    • saving joined documents can be done with a single command: saveAll.
    • retrieving joined documents can be done with a single command: getJoin.
    • deleting joined documents can be done with a single command: deleteAll.
  • Tables are automatically created.
  • Indexes for joins are automatically created.
• Fewer headaches
  • It validates documents before saving them, which prevents you from saving incoherent data.
  • You do not have to remember the name of all your foreign keys.
  • Cursors are automatically coerced to arrays by default.
• Easy to learn
  • Chainable commands like in the driver.
  • All the commands available in the driver are also available with thinky.

What are the disadvantages of using thinky?

Nothing that I can think of. It is basically sugar on top of the driver.

Awesome, where should I start?

Take a look at:

• The quickstart
• The examples on GitHub
• The API documentation