Mastering RethinkDB

Shahid Shaikh

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9781786461070
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Data Processing
• Index: Computer Science

Master the capabilities of RethinkDB and implement them to develop efficient real-time web applications. The way to better database development is here!

About This Book

• Master the powerful ReQL queries to manipulate your JSON data,
• Learn how to develop scalable, real-time web applications using RethinkDB and Node.js and deploy them for production,
• A detailed, step-by-step guide to help you master the concepts of RethinkDB programming with ease

Who This Book Is For

This book caters to all the real-time application developers looking forward to master their skills using RethinkDB. A basic understanding of RethinkDB and Node.js is essential to get the most out of this book.

What You Will Learn

• Master the web-based management console for data-center configuration (sharding, replication, and more), database monitoring, and testing queries.
• Run queries using the ReQL language
• Perform Geospatial queries (such as finding all the documents with locations within 5km of a given point).
• Deal with time series data, especially across various times zones.
• Extending the functionality of RethinkDB and integrate it with third party libraries such as ElasticSearch to enhance our search

In Detail

RethinkDB has a lot of cool things to be excited about: ReQL (its readable, highly-functional syntax), cluster management, primitives for 21st century applications, and change-feeds. This book starts with a brief overview of the RethinkDB architecture and data modeling, and coverage of the advanced ReQL queries to work with JSON documents. Then, you will quickly jump to implementing these concepts in real-world scenarios, by building real-time applications on polling, data synchronization, share market, and the geospatial domain using RethinkDB and Node.js. You will also see how to tweak RethinkDB's capabilities to ensure faster data processing by exploring the sharding and replication techniques in depth.

Then, we will take you through the more advanced administration tasks as well as show you the various deployment techniques using PaaS, Docker, and Compose. By the time you have finished reading this book, you would have taken your knowledge of RethinkDB to the next level, and will be able to use the concepts in RethinkDB to develop efficient, real-time applications with ease.

Style and approach

This book is a unique blend of comprehensive theory and real-world examples to help you master RethinkDB.

Mastering RethinkDB

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Mastering RethinkDB

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Credits

Author Shahid Shaikh	Copy Editor Vikrant Phadkay
Reviewer Rafael Ferreira dos Santos	Project Coordinator Shweta H Birwatkar
Commissioning Editor Amey Varangaonkar	Proofreader Safis Editing
Acquisition Editor Vinay Argekar	Indexer Mariammal Chettiyar
Content Development Editor Amrita Noronha	Graphics Disha Haria
Technical Editor Akash Patel	Production Coordinator Arvindkumar Gupta

About the Author

Shahid Shaikh is an engineer, blogger, and author living in Mumbai, India. He is a full-time professional and a part-time blogger. He loves solving programming problems and he is, expert in software backend design and development.

Shahid has been blogging and teaching programming in practical way for more than two years on his blog. His blog is quite famous in the developer zone and people all around the world take advantage of his expertise in various programming problems related to backend development.

Shahid has also authored a book on Sails.js – MVC framework for Node.js published by Packt.

I would like to thank my parents, my family, and my friends for being kind and supportive during the book development period. I would like to thank my friends, who changed their plans according to my schedule for various occasions. I would also like to thank the RethinkDB team for helping me out with various architectural questions. You guys are awesome!

About the Reviewer

Rafael Ferreira dos Santos

Ted’s father, Geysla’s husband, Developer/Entrepreneur/Bjj addicted, 10 years working with software developer, loves to code, specially in ASP.NET and Node.js.

Thanks to Glenn Morton and the QuizJam team for such an amazing workplace. I would like to thank God and my wife for all the support and love that they give to me. I would not be in such an amazing moment without you.

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Preface

RethinkDB is database built for real time web. It offers us variety of features over NoSQL databases already present in market such as very powerful query language, changefeed and easy scaling.

In this book, we are covering RethinkDB in deep and learning mastering level topics such as scaling, integration and deployment. We are also covering programming with RethinkDB along with step by step screenshot to help you understand the concepts easily.

What this book covers

Chapter 1, The RethinkDB Architecture and Data Model, covers the architecture of RethinkDB and data modeling, along with revisiting the concepts of RethinkDB.

Chapter 2, RethinkDB Query Language, covers RethinkDB query language, or ReQL, which is the core and essential learning curve of RethinkDB. ReQL provides various SQL-like features such as join, indexing, and foreign keys, along with document-based storage with NoSQL.

Chapter 3, Data Exploration Using RethinkDB, covers data extraction and loading along with example use cases using ReQL.

Chapter 4, Performance Tuning in RethinkDB, covers various methods and tricks to improve the performance of RethinkDB.

Chapter 5, Administration and Troubleshooting Tasks in RethinkDB, covers failover mechanisms along with example use cases.

Chapter 6, RethinkDB Deployment, covers various options available to deploy RethinkDB on production.

Chapter 7, Extending RethinkDB. This chapter covers the integration of RethinkDB with other products, such as ElasticSearch.

Chapter 8, Full Stack Development with RethinkDB, covers the implementation of full stack JavaScript application using RethinkDB.

Chapter 9, Polyglot Persistence Using RethinkDB, covers complex synchronization application development using RethinkDB.

Chapter 10, Using RethinkDB and Horizon. This chapter covers the RethinkDB-powered framework called Horizon with a demo application.

What you need for this book

A computer with at least 2 GB of RAM that can support Node.js and Java.

Who this book is for

This book caters to all the real-time application developers looking forward to master their skills using RethinkDB. A basic understanding of RethinkDB and Node.js is essential to get the most out of this book. Developers working in backend development, full stack developers and database architect will find this book useful.

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