rethinkdb-net is a RethinkDB client driver written in C# for the .NET platform. This driver utilizes .NET 4.5 and C# 5.0.


Tiny Example

Main.cs:

using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;
using RethinkDb;
using RethinkDb.Configuration;

[DataContract]
public class Person
{
    public static IDatabaseQuery Db = Query.Db("test");
    public static ITableQuery<Person> Table = Db.Table<Person>("people");

    [DataMember(Name = "id", EmitDefaultValue = false)]
    public Guid Id;

    [DataMember]
    public string Name;
}

public static class MainClass
{
    private static IConnectionFactory connectionFactory =
        ConfigurationAssembler.CreateConnectionFactory("example");

    public static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        var conn = connectionFactory.Get();

        // Create DB if needed
        if (!conn.Run(Query.DbList()).Contains("test"))
            conn.Run(Query.DbCreate("test"));

        // Create table if needed
        if (!conn.Run(Person.Db.TableList()).Contains("people"))
            conn.Run(Person.Db.TableCreate("people"));

        // Read all the contents of the table
        foreach (var person in conn.Run(Person.Table))
            Console.WriteLine("Id: {0}, Name: {1}", person.Id, person.Name);

        // Insert a new record
        conn.Run(Person.Table.Insert(new Person() { Name = "Jack Black" }));
    }
}

App.config:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
    <configSections>
        <section name="rethinkdb" type="RethinkDb.Configuration.RethinkDbClientSection, RethinkDb"/>
    </configSections>
    <rethinkdb>
        <clusters>
            <cluster name="example">
                <defaultLogger enabled="true" category="Warning"/>
                <connectionPool enabled="true"/>
                <networkErrorHandling enabled="true" />
                <endpoints>
                    <endpoint address="127.0.0.1" port="28015"/>
                </endpoints>
            </cluster>
        </clusters>
    </rethinkdb>
</configuration>

Capabilities

Currently this driver is capable of the following things:

• Connecting to a RethinkDB database.

• A decent number of RethinkDB's queries, joins, transformations, aggregations, and reductions:

  • DbList
  • DbCreate
  • DbDrop
  • TableList
  • TableCreate
  • TableDrop
  • Table
  • Get
  • Between
  • Filter
  • Update
  • Delete
  • Replace
  • Count
  • OrderBy
  • Skip
  • Limit
  • Slice
  • Nth
  • InnerJoin
  • OuterJoin
  • EqJoin
  • Zip
  • Distinct
  • Union
  • Map
  • ConcatMap
  • Reduce
  • Group

• Filter, Update, Inner/Outer/EqJoin, Map, Reduce, etc. can be built using C# expressions (with limitations) that are compile-time safe, and are automatically translated into RethinkDB's query language. For example, Query.Db("db").Table<ObjectDefinition>("objects").Update(o => new ObjectDefinition { Name = o.Name + " (new name!)" }).

• Converting data into objects and objects into data; non-primitive objects are marked up using [DataContract] and [DataMember] attributes similar to WCF data contracts.

• Alternatively, the RethinkDb driver also supports Newtonsoft Json.NET object serialization.

• References to object attributes are compile-time verified by using C# expression trees. For example, Query.Db("db").Table<ObjectDefinition>("objects").OrderBy(o => o.Name). Applies to OrderBy, EqJoin, and GroupBy.

• Anonymous types can be used in functions like Map and Reduce. For example:

  Query
    .Db("db")
    .Table<ObjectDefinition>("objects")
    .Map(od => new { Sum = od.Value, Count = 1.0 })
    .Reduce((left, right) => new { Sum = left.Sum + right.Sum, Count = left.Count + right.Count })
  

• Strong compile-time safety using generics. Every query operation knows what type it returns, and whether it returns an object or an enumerable.

• Performing absolutely everything asynchronously, with a synchronous API too if desired.

• Reading streaming / chunked datasets using an async iterator.

• Being 100% compatible with Mono (3.0+).

• Support for serialized object types with the provided DataContract-based datum converter classes (all .NET primitives supported)

• Support for schema-free tables, or sub-sections of objects, by using Dictionary<string, object> types. While you lose some of the the type-safety this library provides by making use of this functionality, it is incredibly powerful to have objects that are composed of some strongly-formed data and some loosely-formed data in this manner.

Currently this project is really lacking in documentation. For examples of usage, you can look at the unit tests in Integration Documentation. These tests are C# versions of the code snippets from RethinkDB's official documentation. There are also a couple small example programs in the Examples directory.

I welcome pull requests. This is just the start of a RethinkDB client for .NET. It's nowhere near the end.