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		foo3456 on Dec 9, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: RethinkDB Driver for Java now available What does Java _driver_ mean -> is this a JDBC driver or just some non standard API to access this database system?

habitue on Dec 9, 2015 [–]

This isn't a JDBC driver since RethinkDB isn't a SQL database, but it fulfills the same role as a JDBC driver.

In addition, RethinkDB doesn't have a textual query language, it's structured data, so the bare driver looks a lot like an ORM

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