&gt; That&#x27;s not what <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rethinkdb.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;quickstart&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rethinkdb.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;quickstart&#x2F;</a> says. It shows a connection that exposes context-bound Builder methods with trigger (insert, changes, run, etc) methods.<p>There isn&#x27;t any sort of builder or any sort of context that anything is bound to.  insert and changes aren&#x27;t anything like run -- they build an AST that describes an insert query, and then you have to run them with run.