Book Image

Mastering RethinkDB

By : Shahid Shaikh
Book Image

Mastering RethinkDB

By: Shahid Shaikh

Overview of this book

RethinkDB has a lot of cool things to be excited about: ReQL (its readable,highly-functional syntax), cluster management, primitives for 21st century applications, and change-feeds. This book starts with a brief overview of the RethinkDB architecture and data modeling, and coverage of the advanced ReQL queries to work with JSON documents. Then, you will quickly jump to implementing these concepts in real-world scenarios, by building real-time applications on polling, data synchronization, share market, and the geospatial domain using RethinkDB and Node.js. You will also see how to tweak RethinkDB's capabilities to ensure faster data processing by exploring the sharding and replication techniques in depth. Then, we will take you through the more advanced administration tasks as well as show you the various deployment techniques using PaaS, Docker, and Compose. By the time you have finished reading this book, you would have taken your knowledge of RethinkDB to the next level, and will be able to use the concepts in RethinkDB to develop efficient, real-time applications with ease.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Mastering RethinkDB
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Summary


In this chapter, we learned all about performance and how to achieve it in RethinkDB. We went deeper into clustering with use cases and learned how to perform replication, achieving the highest level of scalability and availability. We also learnt about sharding and how to achieve it in RethinkDB. Above all, we saw how the RethinkDB team has managed to provide us the tools and web console to perform such tedious operations easily.

We also learned about query optimization, how we can use a query profiler to monitor the time our database is taking to execute the query, and how we can use indexing to improve that time. We looked at some useful tips to help us write better queries for RethinkDB.

In the following chapter, we are going to learn about the administration of RethinkDB, how we can allow user access control, and how to perform various kinds of troubleshooting and failovers.