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N1QL is designed to help developers easily develop applications to solve real-world problems. \u00a0Technically, N1QL is designed to give developers and enterprises an expressive, powerful, and complete language for querying, transforming, and manipulating JSON data. N1QL takes inspiration from SQL and extends SQL to handled flexible, nested structure of JSON.<\/p>\n

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