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RethinkDB 2.1 is out: high availability

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Re: RethinkDB 2.1 is out: high availability

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Post by jkarneges »

tacone wrote: post #77
uberneo wrote: post #47

This looks awesome .. great job guys .. Just a question on licenses . Server is "GNU Affero General Public License v3.0" and drivers are "Apache License v2.0." , so in simple english does it means that can i use make commercial products with backend as RethinkDB? these things always confuses me so apologies if i ask something stupid here ..

AGPL is outright scaring. Patch it and suddenly you get in the business of releasing code, checking dependencies licenses, exposing the server code to anybody, etc. Deal breaker.

Then pay for it?

Re: RethinkDB 2.1 is out: high availability

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Post by ahachete »

jchrisa wrote: post #33
mikegioia wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's funny, I just installed that over the weekend and was testing it out. It's really good but what sort of through me off was the high $/node licensing fee if you want the Enterprise edition. It basically starts at $5k/year/node and that's just too oppressive. Do you use the Community Edition and if so is it generally stable / suits your needs? I didn't read your article but I'll check it out tonight.

I'm a cofounder of Couchbase. Almost all our code is Apache 2.0, and we make the Community builds available for everyone. Enterprise builds are free to use for a small test cluster. Unless you are a business where $5k/node looks reasonable to pay for peace of mind, you are probably fine with the Community Edition. A lot of the customers paying for Enterprise Edition are moving to Couchbase from Oracle, so they are pa…

If bug fixes take weeks to get to the CE, as one post below quoted from Couchbase's website, how is it possible that you say that the CE is probably fine?

I'd rather say it's pretty useless. I wouldn't run anything where a bug fix (which could be a data corruption issue, a crash...) may take weeks to be fixed.

Unless I'm missing something, my opinion is: either use the commercial version or use a different product. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Re: RethinkDB 2.1 is out: high availability

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Post by _yy »

balls187 wrote: post #25
coffeemug wrote: post #2

Slava @ RethinkDB here. I'll be around all day to answer questions about the release (along with a few other engineers on our team). We're very excited about this release -- it makes the lives of RethinkDB users dramatically better because they won't have to wake up anymore in the middle of the night in case of most hardware failures :) It also took over a year to build and test, and has been one of the most challeng…

We're seeing serious memory leaks in 2.0.4~trusty. http://glui.me/?i=uu1gqb3son0sbnn/2015-08-11_at_11.33_AM.png... You can see where the memory sets itself during the rethink process restart, and then it slowly climbs back up to ~3gb, despite no new data being written to the system (all our RethinkDB data is generated during deploy time). Any pointers? I'd be happy to provide any diagnostics.

For anyone curious: https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/4663

Re: RethinkDB 2.1 is out: high availability

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Post by dmix »

d_luaz wrote: post #95
williamstein wrote: post #21

This is soooo awesome. I started rewriting SageMathCloud to use RethinkDB when I learned in May about your plans to support high availability. I've been rewriting everything, doing tests (building from sources, then using the beta you kindly provided), and finally after months of work, I'm ready to release the new version of SageMathCloud last night, but RethinkDB 2.1 isn't out yet. So I'm torn about whether to go wi…

I would like to encourage more people to share on StackBus (FYI, I built it) on why they use RethinkDB and what they use it for, to provide more insights to those who are evaluating RethinkDB http://www.stackbus.com/

I used it because everything all data comes from JS apps and JSON->storing in Rethinkdb is incredibly easy. Plus hooking up changefeeds (event stream for whenever a table changes) has tons of usecases (analytics, IRC bots, etc).

Re: RethinkDB 2.1 is out: high availability

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Post by ahachete »

friendnoodle wrote: post #75
uberneo wrote: post #47

This looks awesome .. great job guys .. Just a question on licenses . Server is "GNU Affero General Public License v3.0" and drivers are "Apache License v2.0." , so in simple english does it means that can i use make commercial products with backend as RethinkDB? these things always confuses me so apologies if i ask something stupid here ..

The AGPL confuses a lot of people on a lot of projects. It's actually really simple: If you modify the package (RethinkDB itself, in this case), you have to release your changes. That's it.

That's not precise. If you modify the package and distribute it to your users, they must have access to the source code (including the changes, which also become licensed under the same terms). Up to this point, it's the same as with GPL.

AGPL also enforces code and changes to be distributed to the users if they directly consume your database over the network. This would be the case, for example, of a database-as-a-service.

Put it simply: you use an AGPL database, internally, even for your SaaS: you're fine. You either modify RethinkDB and ship it as a product or you provide a RethinkDB or RethinkDB-derived database-as-a-service, then you have to also provide source code to your users.

Re: RethinkDB 2.1 is out: high availability

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Post by mglukhovsky »

mikes25 wrote: post #105

Any support for Windows yet? I'm keen to move to rethinkDB from using redis, but my development is done on Windows at the moment.

A Windows port is in progress (https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/labels/windows), but it will take some time to complete. Windows support is one of our most-requested features: https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/1100

Re: RethinkDB 2.1 is out: high availability

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Post by cihangirb »

ahachete wrote: post #102
jchrisa wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a cofounder of Couchbase. Almost all our code is Apache 2.0, and we make the Community builds available for everyone. Enterprise builds are free to use for a small test cluster. Unless you are a business where $5k/node looks reasonable to pay for peace of mind, you are probably fine with the Community Edition. A lot of the customers paying for Enterprise Edition are moving to Couchbase from Oracle, so they are pa…

If bug fixes take weeks to get to the CE, as one post below quoted from Couchbase's website, how is it possible that you say that the CE is probably fine? I'd rather say it's pretty useless. I wouldn't run anything where a bug fix (which could be a data corruption issue, a crash...) may take weeks to be fixed. Unless I'm missing something, my opinion is: either use the commercial version or use a different product. P…

Hi, if you are experiencing corruption of data with the community edition, please let us know. We will take a look at that immediately.

The paid version of the software funds the community edition for Couchbase. I cannot say our system is perfect and I am certainly happy to hear feedback on how you'd like to see community vs enterprise edition configured. Posting here is fine or I am at - cihan@couchbase.com. thanks -cihan

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