RethinkDB joins the Linux Foundation: What Happens Next

Post by brilliantcode » Tue, Feb 07, 2017, 7:30 PM UTC

lewisl9029 wrote: post #68

brilliantcode wrote: post #55

ironic that this will be the move that actually propels rethinkdb... it's my feeling that software licensing day's are over for the little guys. If you are Oracle or Microsoft and have that brand recognition great. Coupled with commoditization of developers, I think it'd be great if we had a kickstarter site where you could request a commercial project to be open-sourced, pitch in some money to support the developer.…

I'd love to be able to pitch in some money to turn Datomic into an open-source project. As much as I'd love to use it for my own projects, commercial licenses tend to causes huge pains for deployment, and poses as an insurmountable philosophical barrier for use in my own open-source projects.

hey lewis9029,

just wanted to let you know we are working on exactly that: a way to crowdfund open source alternatives to commercial software like Datomic.

Do a search for "letsopensource" on the thread here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13591321

Post by tracker1 » Tue, Feb 07, 2017, 7:52 PM UTC

bogomipz wrote: post #103

tracker1 wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

RethinkDB is in my mind firstly Mongo done right... Cassandra is a very different beast, but seems to be the better option when you need massive (100+ node clusters) scaling, but that comes with a lot of work in terms of development. While RethinkDB is probably most comparable to Mongo, it's worth noting that the sharding/replication/fail-over support and model is much better than Mongo's. Beyond that, the update not…

>"Also, rethink supports joins at the server (though best to avoid a lot of the time)." Does RethinkDB have distributed joins then? These sort of notoriously difficult to implement well no? I see you say its best to avoid. I would curious to hear you experience with them.

They are difficult, and costly, performance-wise. I wouldnt use them for a large expected result-set... maybe sub-items against a single parent.

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