What kind of workload RethinkDB is suitable for ? 1. Transactional 2. Analytical 3. Operational
Not really transactional. RethinkDB only has document-level atomicity, and even then, not all writes are guaranteed to be atomic.
RethinkDB joins the Linux Foundation: What Happens Next
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Re: RethinkDB joins the Linux Foundation: What Happens Next
#52The team behind RethinkDB has been a class act. Thank you for creating a fantastic product and doing what's right by your users even as you were winding down.
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#53My weird and unrelated question is: if I donate software to an open source group like the Linux Foundation, can I write it off my taxes? And if so, how do I assess the value of it? RethinkDB probably has some legitimate market value...can the founders reflect that on their taxes?
Not likely, since the Linux Foundation is a 501(c)6 organization, and donations are not tax-deductible.
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#54This is awesome news! Good to see Cloud Native Foundation growing to address the needs in Cloud Computing space.
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#55ironic 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.
For instance if somebody released an open source version of Hootsuite I think that would put a severe dent in Vancouver's tech scene-Hootsuite customers wouldn't even think twice about switching to a zero cost solution, as it's not a pain killer but a vitamin. Free vitamin is always better than an expensive one. Pain killers on the other hand are less flexible because it's an emotional buy.
Re: RethinkDB joins the Linux Foundation: What Happens Next
#56Sorry if this should be obvious but what is/are the killer feature/s of RethinkDB, what differentiates it from something like Redis or even CockroachDB?
Only RethinkDB gets you a) working changefeeds, where you can receive real-time changefeed updates to your queries, b) a well-implemented and Jepsen-proven distributed database. As far as I know, there is no other solution which gets both things right. I use it in PartsBox ( https://partsbox.io/ ), a solution for keeping track of electronic components. I am surprised more people aren't interested in changefeeds — the…
Have to agree with pmalynin, there are other dbs that do this.
Couchbase Mobile has changes feed as well.
How you are defining/measuring "well-implemented".
Not sure why there is no Jepsen test of Couchbase. I see many requests, and a closed issue with no discussion of why it was closed.
Re: RethinkDB joins the Linux Foundation: What Happens Next
#57Linux foundation are collecting quite a lot "failed" projects and turn them to gold these days? I sometimes feel it is acting like a software goodwill store partially. Whatever that is, hope RethinkDB will do well in the future.
IMO the ASF is better at collecting abandoned failed software while LF has more openwashed corporate code dumps. CNCF is actually legit though because they generally accept technically sound software that is already successful.
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#58Re: RethinkDB joins the Linux Foundation: What Happens Next
#59Linux foundation are collecting quite a lot "failed" projects and turn them to gold these days? I sometimes feel it is acting like a software goodwill store partially. Whatever that is, hope RethinkDB will do well in the future.
Do you have some examples to point out?
Re: RethinkDB joins the Linux Foundation: What Happens Next
#60The news in the article is that CNCF spent good money to wipe out a copyleft license. They think history has shown a more permissive license without copyleft or a patent grab (just a patent notice) - namely ASLv2 - is a far superior choice and paid to get that in place. Their very recent explanation is well worth reading:
https://www.cncf.io/blog/2017/02/01/cncf-recommends-aslv2
I'll explain what I mean by patent notice since those are my words, quick version: If you don't declare that you have patent rights affecting a portion of code you have contributed, you've given those patent rights.