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SE Radio 243: RethinkDB with Slava Akhmechet

SE Radio 243: RethinkDB with Slava Akhmechet

Software Engineering Radio - The Podcast for Professional Software Developers vor 10 Jahren

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Slava Akhmechet and Jeff Meyerson discuss RethinkDB, an open
source database for the real-time Web. RethinkDB pushes data to
the application rather than requiring the application to poll the
database for updates. The discussion begins with the question of
why databases need to be rethought–why is it better to build
JSON-pushing into the database layer rather than the application
layer? Slava explains how RethinkDB changes a full-stack
architecture and discusses how Meteor's JavaScript framework is a
good model for how to think about applications which use push.
The discussion continues with an exploration of RethinkDB's
transaction model, its data model, and its guarantees. The
conversation concludes with an exploration of tradeoffs between
different programming languages. Slava explains why RethinkDB was
written in C++ rather than Go, or another language.