Mastering RethinkDB

Executing ReQL queries in a cluster

We have our cluster in place running smoothly; let's perform a ReQL query and observe the response. First we will create a new table in the test database. As we have learned in Chapter 2, RethinkDB Query Language, we need to use the tableCreate() method to create a new table.

Let's execute a query from the web administrative screen:

r.db("test").tableCreate('clusterTest2') 

Here is our response object:

As you may have noticed the highlighted section, primary_replica is showing that this table is stored at a machine ending with _y7b, which is my second machine in the cluster. This proves that RethinkDB automatically ...