Congrats on the 2.0 release! Changefeeds are an incredibly powerful feature. We're looking forward to the next release with automagic failover!
RethinkDB 2.0 is now production ready
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#12Is Rethink going to stay in the community? Or is there a chance that it could be bought out? I don't want to spend time learning something and have it go private like FoundationDB. I'm assuming GNU and Apache is a good thing? How is RethinkDB licensed? The RethinkDB server is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. The client drivers are licensed under the Apache License v2.0. http://rethinkdb.com/…
Slava, CEO @ Rethink here. There are two aspects that you should consider.
Firstly, as Daniel pointed out, RethinkDB is licensed under AGPL. An acquirer wouldn't have the legal means to close the source code, and with over 700 forks on GitHub they also couldn't do it practically.
But beyond licensing, consider our personal motivations. We've been working on RethinkDB for five years, and had quite a few opportunities to sell the company. We turned them all down because we really believe in the product. The world is clearly moving towards realtime apps, and we feel it's extremely important for open realtime infrastructure to exist. It's easy for people to make promises about the future, but consider this from a game-theoretic point of view. If we wanted to sell, we could have done it long ago. I know it's not a guarantee, but hopefully it's a strong signal to help with your decision.
(Also, there are lots of really interesting companies building products on RethinkDB that we can't talk publicly about yet. It would be silly to sell given that momentum)
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#13Congratulations, been looking forward to this release for a while!
I think this a good place to say thank you for you're work on the Go Rethink driver.
This is a clear written easy to follow and effective peace of code.
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#14Looking forward to install it from homebrew but it's not there yet. Good to see that for python drivers PIP is already updated!
It should be out later today. We're working on it now.
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#15Congrats on the 2.0! It's been interesting to watch as a project.
Do you expect that as you stabilize you'll officially support more drivers? Or are you going to leave that as a community effort?
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#16Now that 2.0 is production ready, will we be seeing some RethinkDB providers? A simple Heroku integration would be amazing for quickly prototyping apps with a new database technology.
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#17Is Rethink going to stay in the community? Or is there a chance that it could be bought out? I don't want to spend time learning something and have it go private like FoundationDB. I'm assuming GNU and Apache is a good thing? How is RethinkDB licensed? The RethinkDB server is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. The client drivers are licensed under the Apache License v2.0. http://rethinkdb.com/…
FoundationDB was a closed-source database. It was never open-source.
They had only open-sourced the SQL-Layer on top of their key/value store and it's still available on Github. The reason: They build it based on open-source code
When someone deletes a public repository on Github, one fork remains as the new master. (Here's FoundationDB's SQL-Layer: https://github.com/louisrli/sql-layer)
So: RethinkDB will stay, even if someone tries to pull the plug. Just fork them on Github. :)
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#18Big fan of RethinkDB. Use it in all of my projects these days.
What were you using before? What are the pros and cons of the switch?
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#19Congratulations, been looking forward to this release for a while!
I think this a good place to say thank you for you're work on the Go Rethink driver. This is a clear written easy to follow and effective peace of code.
Thank you very much! I hope to have an update to the Go driver which supports RethinkDB v2.0 within a couple of hours.
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#20Why would I use RethinkDB instead of OrientDB?