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README.md

Views in AQL

Conceptually a view is just another document data source, similar to an array or a document/edge collection. The only distinction is that when querying views the VIEW keyword must be specified in the FOR statement just before the view name, e.g.:

FOR doc IN VIEW exampleView FILTER ... SORT ... RETURN ...

A view is meant to be an abstraction over a transformation applied to documents of zero or more collections. The transformation is view-implementation specific and may even be as simple as an identity transformation thus making the view represent all documents available in the specified set of collections.

Views can be defined and administered on a per view-type basis via the web interface.

The currently supported view implementations are: