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Today I have sad news to share. After more than seven years of development, the company behind RethinkDB is shutting down. We worked very hard to make RethinkDB successful, but in spite of all our efforts we were ultimately unable to build a sustainable business. There is a lot of information to unpack – over the next few months, I’ll write about lessons learned so the startup community can benefi

Opal is a transpiler that converts Ruby code into browser-friendly JavaScript, opening the door for developers to build frontend web applications with Ruby. It’s a particularly intriguing option for backend Ruby developers who want to use the same language across their entire stack. I recently gave Opal a try myself, incorporating it into a simple realtime todo list demo that I built with RethinkD

The developers behind Node.js released version 4.0 last week. The new version is a major update that includes significant improvements and many new language features. It is the first release to incorporate improvements from io.js, a community-driven fork that recently reintegrated with upstream Node.js. The io.js project emerged earlier this year when prominent Node.js contributors decided to go t

We’re proud to announce that after five years of development, RethinkDB is ready for production. Download RethinkDB 2.0 (Yojimbo) now! We designed RethinkDB from the ground up to make building and scaling realtime apps dramatically easier. The cumulative development effort behind the project includes more than 2,000 improvements, implemented across 16 major releases. Our GitHub repository has near

Over the past few months the team at RethinkDB has been working on a project to make building modern, realtime apps dramatically easier. The upcoming features are the start of an exciting new database access model – instead of polling the database for changes, the developer can tell RethinkDB to continuously push updated query results to applications in realtime. This work started as an innocuous

Interested in a less biased overview? Browse through the technical comparison tables between RethinkDB and MongoDB. Many people have been asking how RethinkDB differs from MongoDB and other NoSQL systems. Our first attempt to address these questions is a high level technical overview comparing RethinkDB with MongoDB. However, the overview is meant to be impartial, and it omits some of the more int

What is RethinkDB? RethinkDB is the first open-source, scalable JSON database built from the ground up for the realtime web. It inverts the traditional database architecture by exposing an exciting new access model – instead of polling for changes, the developer can tell RethinkDB to continuously push updated query results to applications in realtime. RethinkDB’s realtime push architecture dramati