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Those are very pragmatic choices. I don't think I could a) tackle the complexity and b) achieve the performance I wanted without Clojure and ClojureScript. Ret
by jwr 9y ago
Those are very pragmatic choices. I don't think I could a) tackle the complexity and b) achieve the performance I wanted without Clojure and ClojureScript.
RethinkDB is used for two reasons:
1. It's the only database that provides changefeeds that I need to implement real-time updates for users. Complete changefeeds, as in: get an initial state and then updates.
2. I wanted to easily solve replication, fault-tolerance and scalability, RethinkDB gets all of them right, at least for the levels of scalability that I require.
- ultrasounder 9y agoGreat answers!. Thanks to You I learnt a new tech-stack today and cant wait to try it out. I also am an EE Btw, and I wish my Purchasing person had tools like these available to them to do better production planning back in the days which was like 5 years ago !
- dankohn1 9y agoAs someone involved in re-licensing RethinkDB and finding a new home for it at the Linux Foundation, I'm thrilled to hear your use case. https://www.cncf.io/blog/2017/02/06/cncf-purchases-rethinkdb-source-code-contributes-linux-foundation-apache-license/ https://www.cncf.io/blog/2017/02/06/cncf-purchases-rethinkdb...
- jwr 9y agoThank you for your work! I think RethinkDB is underappreciated and undervalued, mostly because people tend to act based on hype and seasonal fads. RethinkDB brings down the cost of developing apps with real-time push updates to manageable levels. Similarly, there is no other distributed database out there that can be deployed so easily.