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Mastering RethinkDB

By : Shaikh
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Mastering RethinkDB

By: 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 (11 chapters)

Summary

RethinkDB is indeed a next-generation database with some amazing features and high performance. Due to these architectural advantages, it has been trusted by top-level organizations such as NASA. We covered the architecture of RethinkDB in detail in order to understand how it works and why it is great for real-time databases. We also covered disk storage, clustering, and failover handling of RethinkDB.

Along with the architecture, we also looked over data modeling in RethinkDB. We also looked over one of the most used features of SQL-JOINS working in a NoSQL database, that is, RethinkDB. There is no doubt that RethinkDB is the next big thing.

In next chapter, we are going to learn about the query language of RethinkDB, called ReQL. We will go over it with examples. We will also cover changefeeds, which is personally my favorite feature of RethinkDB.