Migrating from an older release

Firstly, thank you patron! You're a part of an exclusive club which has seen Skytable take shape from just another key-value store into a powerful database and we couldn't be more honored to be a choice in your stack. This document is meant for people coming from version prior to Skytable Octave (0.8).

Let's get you up to speed with the new semantics:

• Keyspaces are now spaces
• Tables are now models and can store multiple fields
• Nested lists are now supported
• All the actions are gone!
• There is no default:default keyspace and model: You will need to create your own space and model

From actions to BlueQL

• SET x y becomes: INSERT INTO mymodel(x, ?)
• GET x becomes SELECT * FROM mymodel WHERE <primary_key> = x
• UPDATE x y becomes UPDATE mymodel SET field_name = ? WHERE <primary_key> = x
• DEL X becomes DELETE FROM mymodel WHERE <primary_key> = x

Essentially, you no longer have the key/value semantics but a more SQL-like interface for querying with BlueQL. You can continue to use lists (create, update) but individual element access is currently limited. See this page for more information.