Why GROQ?

The datastore is the most important part of what defines Sanity. Sanity is built for structured content, which is richer than simple two-dimensional tables. Likewise, GROQ is meant to be more powerful and easier to use than traditional SQL, used to query a database. GROQ stands for Graph Oriented Query language, so, as the name suggests, it is a query language used to query graphs, which are able to represent more complex data structures.

GROQ has four main features:

• Expressive filtering: This allows us to build the query using a speakable syntax. If we are looking for a venue within our venues named Will's Pub, then we will simply use the following expression, which equates to where the type is venue and the (venue) name is Will's Pub:

  _type== "venue" && name=="Will's Pub"

• Joins: GROQ can join together several documents, combining the result together.
• Shaping: You can decide which content fields to include or also...