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Getting Started with RethinkDB

By : Gianluca Tiepolo
Book Image

Getting Started with RethinkDB

By: Gianluca Tiepolo

Overview of this book

RethinkDB is a high-performance document-oriented database with a unique set of features. This increasingly popular NoSQL database is used to develop real-time web applications and, together with Node.js, it can be used to easily deploy them to the cloud with very little difficulty. Getting Started with RethinkDB is designed to get you working with RethinkDB as quickly as possible. Starting with the installation and configuration process, you will learn how to start importing data into the database and run simple queries using the intuitive ReQL query language. After successfully running a few simple queries, you will be introduced to other topics such as clustering and sharding. You will get to know how to set up a cluster of RethinkDB nodes and spread database load across multiple machines. We will then move on to advanced queries and optimization techniques. You will discover how to work with RethinkDB from a Node.js environment and find out all about deployment techniques. Finally, we’ll finish by working on a fully-fledged example that uses the Node.js framework and advanced features such as Changefeeds to develop a real-time web application.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Getting Started with RethinkDB
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Deploying RethinkDB


RethinkDB can easily be deployed to a variety of cloud PaaS (platform as a service) services. In this section, we'll look at how to deploy RethinkDB to the Amazon Web Services platform.

The first thing to do is to access the AWS marketplace and search for the RethinkDB AMI (Amazon Machine Image).

As you can see from the previous screenshot, there maybe more than one RethinkDB image. Choose the latest version and click the Select button to proceed:

The next step is to choose the instance type. RethinkDB has minimal hardware requirements, so the t2.small instance is perfectly suitable for a small-sized database. Once you've chosen the desired instance, the following page will ask you to configure the networking and storage options. Finally, review all the settings and launch the instance by clicking on the Launch button:

At this point, wait for the instance to initialize. This can take a few minutes. When it is ready, you can log into your instance using SSH and configure...