Remarks#

What is RethinkDB?

• Open-source database for building realtime web applications
• NoSQL database that stores schemaless JSON documents
• Distributed database that is easy to scale
• High availability database with automatic failover and robust fault tolerance

RethinkDB is the first open-source scalable database built for realtime applications. It exposes a new database access model — instead of polling for changes, the developer can tell the database to continuously push updated query results to applications in realtime. RethinkDB allows developers to build scalable realtime apps in a fraction of the time with less effort.

Versions#

Installation on OS X

Using Homebrew

Prerequisites: Make sure you’re on OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) or above, and have Homebrew installed.

Run the following in your terminal:

brew update && brew install rethinkdb

Compile from source

Building RethinkDB from source requires OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) or greater. Xcode is required to build from source.

Get the source code

Download and extract the archive:

wget https://download.rethinkdb.com/dist/rethinkdb-2.3.4.tgz
tar xf rethinkdb-2.3.4.tgz

Build RethinkDB

Kick off the build process:

cd rethinkdb-2.3
./configure --allow-fetch --fetch openssl
make

You will find the rethinkdb binary in the build/release/ subfolder.

Installation on Ubuntu

Ubuntu binaries are available for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures

source /etc/lsb-release && echo "deb https://download.rethinkdb.com/apt $DISTRIB_CODENAME main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rethinkdb.list
wget -qO- https://download.rethinkdb.com/apt/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install rethinkdb

Installation on Windows

Downloading

Prerequisites: We provide native 64-bit binaries for Windows 7 and above. A 64-bit version of Windows is required.

Download the ZIP archive and unpack it in a directory of your choice.

The Windows port of RethinkDB is a recent addition and hasn’t received as much tuning as the Linux and OS X versions yet. Please report any performance issues on GitHub.

Running RethinkDB

The Windows version of RethinkDB, like the Linux/OS X versions, is executed from the command line. You’ll need to start the Windows command shell.

• Press Win + X and click “Command Prompt”; or
• Open the Start Menu, click “Run,” and type “cmd” ENTER

Use the cd command to go to the directory that you unpacked rethinkdb.exe in.

C:\Users\Slava\>cd RethinkDB
C:\Users\Slava\RethinkDB\>

Then, you can start RethinkDB with its default options.

C:\Users\Slava\RethinkDB\>rethinkdb.exe

You can also use any of the command line options to control configuration (as well as specify a configuration file).

To start with a specific data directory:

rethinkdb.exe -d c:\RethinkDB\data\

To specify a server name and another cluster to join:

rethinkdb.exe -n jarvis -j cluster.example.com