Awesome RethinkDB

A curated list of RethinkDB resources and libraries.

Table of Contents

• Official resources
• RethinkDB Horizon
• Data modelling
• Browser-based development resources
• Node.js projects and resources
• Python projects and resources
• Java projects and resources

Official resources

While an obvious place to look for help, there are some essential, but often overlooked resources that this list would not be complete without.

• RethinkDB on Slack - get help, learn tricks, talk to developers, help others.
• RethinkDB blog - contains news not only about RethinkDB itself, but also from the app ecosystem.
• RethinkDB on YouTube - real user stories, presentations, future features.
• 3rd party libraries for Python, Node.js, Ruby.

Release 2.4 - coming Q2 2017

• All features and bugs in a GitHub milestone
• Improvements to user permission system:
• rights to the system tables

Release 2.3 - shipped April 6th 2016

• changelog and the longer blog post
• A official, but beta Windows build
• Permissions - a basic user/permission structure (not aimed at browser-to-database connection, see Horizon section for that)
• Encrypted connections for drivers and clusters
• Custom conflict resolution for inserts
• Fold - reduce with a guaranteed order

Subsequent releases

RethinkDB contributors have not committed to any particular version and date. It's likely that some of them will arrive in 2.5, maybe later in 2017.

• resumable changefeeds - lets you to continue where you left off (2.5?)
• GraphQL support - involves discussion around Horizon
• Changefeeds on joins
• Filtering by several indexes - letting the server optimise queries
• Document links - the first step towards graph features, reducing the need for table joins
• Data browser in web UI

RethinkDB Horizon

• First longer official demo of Horizon
• What's coming in 2016 - the reasoning behind, and the first public demonstration of Horizon (briefly known as Fusion during pre-alpha).

Data modelling

• Why not MongoDB - a dated article with a timeless lesson about potential risks of storing document trees vs relational data.
• Awesome Big Data List - gives you a wider context of the database world.
• When RethinkDB is not the right choice - discussion after SageMathCloud migrated from RethinkDB to PostgreSQL

Browser integrations

• react-rethinkdb - server+client library for React - lets you perform ReQL in browser

Node.js

Node.js packages and template projects

• rethinkdbdash - an alternative driver featuring connecting pooling.
• JS Data adapter - allows you to use one API to query RethinkDB from Node.js as you would query REST API from a browser.
• rethinkdb-init - Create all RethinkDB databases, tables and indexes automatically through a schema object.
• rethinkdb-job-queue - A persistent distributed job processing queue.
• react-rethinkdb video - Mike Mintz presenting his demo project - canvas drawing application
• 3REE Stack - React, Redux, Express:
• blog post,
• 3REE on GitHub,
• auth sample project.
• feathers.js sample chat project

Python

• ~SageMathCloud - Real-time collaborative math, document editing and programming~
• BigchainDB - Infinitely scalable blockchain database
• BigchainDB whitepaper - see pages 45-46 for notes on RethinkDB

Java

Java template projects

• Play-RethinkDB - CRUD with Play, Scala and Bootstrap