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August 06, 2015
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Transcript
RethinkDB Josh Hunt Developer @ Mi9
What is RethinkDB?
RethinkDB is… Open Source Database for the realtime web Schemaless
‘JSON’ document store Easy to develop, easy to deploy
RethinkDB is MongoDB that doesn't suck
Realtime Changefeeds Subscribe to any query and receive notification when
data changes No need to poll for updates Eliminates infra and plumbing code
Easy development Modern, native query language in Javascript/Python/Ruby/Go/whatever Query features
like join, map, reduce Web UI for testing queries (with docs!)
Easy deployment Scale with web UI for hassle-free sharding and
replication Hosted options with Compose.io Support contracts available
Demo
Rethink(ing) Queries
ReQL 101 Native to your programming language by chaining functions
Secure - injection attacks are minimised Queries are executed AND distributed by the server
Sample queries r.table('shows') .get('e346caa5...') r.table('actors') .pluck('lastName') .distinct().count()
More sample queries r.table('actors') .filter(r.row('age').gt(20)) r.table('characters') .filter({species: 'hobbit'}) .update({species: 'halfling'})
Demo
(Secondary) Indexes Indexes makes queries faster RethinkDB has auto GUID
primary index Can have multiple secondary indexes, using any field, or multiple fields with compound indexes
Compound indexes r.table('cast').indexCreate('fullName', [r.row('firstName'), r.row('lastName')] )
Compound indexes r.table('cast').indexCreate('fullName', [r.row('firstName'), r.row('lastName')] ) r.table('cast').getAll( ['Josh', 'Hunt'], {index:
'fullName'} )
More ReQL Store (sub)queries into variables Location aware: query on
geospatial data Accessing external APIs
Store subexpressions in variables to reuse or for subqueries expired
= r.row('expiryDate').lt(r.row()) r.table('episodes') .filter(expired) .delete()
Store subexpressions in variables to remove boilerplate // models/Shows.js module.exports
= r.table('shows') // routes/shows.js Shows = require('../models/Shows') Shows.get(req.params.showId)
Adding geospatial data r.table('cities').insert([ {name: 'Sydney', location: r.point(-33.865, 151.209)}, {name:
'Melbourne', location: r.point(-37.813, 144.963)} ])
Querying geospatial data home = r.point(-33.42, 149.57) r.table('cities') .getNearest(home, {index:
'location'}) r.table('cities') .get(1)('location') .distance(r.table(‘cities').get(2)('location'))
Accessing external APIs r.http('https://api.github.com/repos/joshhunt/uber') r.table('repos') .insert( r.http('https://api.github.com/repos/joshhunt/uber') .pluck('name', 'ssh_url', 'language',
'description', 'watchers_count') )
Realtime with Changefeeds
Realtime changefeeds Subscribe to change notifications on a database query
Receive old and new value Works great with Javascript because its async
Get notified of every change to the show table r.table('shows')
.changes() .run((update) => { update.each(console.log) })
Change for new document { old_val: null new_val: {name: 'Bilbo
Baggins'} }
Change for updated document { old_val: {name: 'Gandalf the Grey'}
new_val: {name: 'Gandalf the White'} }
Change for deleted document { old_val: {name: 'Saruman'} new_val: null
}
Get notified when the top shows (by streams) changes r.table('shows')
.orderBy({index: r.desc('streams')}) .limit(5) .changes()
Supported queries Subscribe to changes to get, between, filter, map,
min, max, orderBy, limit
Use cases Anything realtime - chat, scores, etc To avoid
making DB requests on every request Decouple and send analytics
Using Rethink with Node.js
Official driver r = require('rethinkdb'); r.connect() .then((conn) => { return
r.table('show') .insert({name: 'The Block'}) .run() .finally( => { conn.close() }) }) .then((output) => { console.log(output); })
RethinkDB Dash Alternate driver with ‘advanced features’ Connection pooling -
don’t worry about conn.close() Cursors are coerced to arrays by default
r.connect() .then((conn) => { return r.table('actors') .filter(r.row('age').gt(20)) .run() .finally( =>
{ conn.close() }) }) .then((cursor) => { return cursor.toArray(); }) .then((result) => { assert(Array.isArray(result)); }) r = require('rethinkdbdash')(); r.table('actors') .filter(r.row('age').gt(20)) .run() .then((result) => { assert(Array.isArray(result)); }) Official driver vs rethinkdbdash
Thinky ORM Very light models for RethinkDB Handles creating indexes
for you Automatically join tables (based on model definition)
Creating Thinky models Show = thinky.createModel('Show', { id: type.string(), title:
type.string(), drm: type.boolean() }) Episode = thinky.createModel('Episode', { id: type.string(), title: type.string().min(2), description: type.string() }) Episode.belongsTo(Show, 'show', 'showId', 'id');
Creating documents with Thinky models show = new Show({title: 'The
Block', drm: false}); episode = new Episode({title: 'Episode 455', description: ‘...'}); episode.show = show; episode.saveAll().then((savedEpisode) => { console.log(savedEpisode.id); })
Retrieving and joining with Thinky models Episode.get(req.params.episodeId) .getJoin().run() .then((episode) =>
{ console.log(episode); assert(episode.show.title); })
Resources rethinkdb.com - Indepth API/query documentation - FAQ (rethinkdb vs
mongodb) - Stability Report - Limitations of RethinkDB
Questions?