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Mastering RethinkDB

By : Shahid Shaikh
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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

Deploying RethinkDB on a standalone server


If you want to deploy RethinkDB other than on PaaS services then you need to perform a custom installation, which is going to be different per operating system.

To give an example, let's consider the server is running Ubuntu 15.04 and we want to install RethinkDB on it.

To do that, we need to execute the following commands:

  1. First, update Ubuntu:

    sudo apt-get update
    
  2. Install the RethinkDB repository in the repository list of Ubuntu using the following command:

    echo "deb http://download.rethinkdb.com/apt `lsb_release -cs`
          main" >/etc/apt/sources.list.d/rethinkdb.list
    
  3. Install WGET to download the executable files of RethinkDB using the following command:

    sudo apt-get install --y wget
    

  4. Download the RethinkDB repository to the system using the following command:

    wget -O- http://download.rethinkdb.com/apt/pubkey.gpg | apt-key
          add -
    
  5. Update the repository to effect the changes:

    sudo apt-get update
    
  6. Install RethinkDB using the following command...