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Announcing the RethinkDB 2.0 release candidate

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Yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9238983

RethinkDB: do you plan on releasing any official benchmarks or projections, especially with regards to how much better at realtime RethinkDB is or could be compared to other realtime database systems built on top of non-realtime databases?

Would you trust those benchmarks if they did? Much better that a third party creates them

That's why I mentioned projections too. I'd just love to hear a RethinkDB person tell us how they see themselves in relation to it's alternatives. I don't particularly care about their current performance because it's a young project. I don't even know if they see real-time performance as their core value proposition.

Tho of course, a third party analysis of RethinkDB's architecture would be amaizing (-; Benchmarks not so much.

I'm quite interested in the upcoming official Java driver; I tried to use RethinkDB for Clojure, but by then the DB was several versions ahead of what the Clojure driver supported (the tests would randomly fail, in a different place each time they were run).

Eventually, I swapped my project over to Redis, which was reasonably well suited to the task (a scraper with independent values, the whole db is held in memory and shipped to the client and queried locally).

Still, RethinkDB would have been nice for future proofing, once it is time to implement user accounts etc, so I'd like to switch back in the future.

There's also a new third-party Clojure driver under development: https://github.com/apa512/clj-rethinkdb It's not complete yet, but it's starting to look pretty good.

What is RethinkDB's business model? I can't find anything about this. It seems they currently live off VC funding but how will they sustain this?

As the blog post says, commercial support options and other services will debut alongside the 2.0 release. You can expect more details when 2.0 officially launches.

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