{"id":1573,"date":"2009-07-28T22:37:30","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T03:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1573"},"modified":"2009-07-28T22:37:30","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T03:37:30","slug":"rethinkdb-all-the-rage-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/07\/28\/rethinkdb-all-the-rage-today","title":{"rendered":"RethinkDB all the rage today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rethinkdb.com\/\">RethinkDB<\/a> is all the rage today, as its a Y Combinator funded startup, which also launched a developer pre-alpha today. So what is RethinkDB you ask? Yet-another-MySQL-storage-engine, that&#8217;s what. But this time, its tuned for solid-state drives (SSDs), which also happen to be all the rage these days.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, check <a href=\"http:\/\/rethinkdb.com\/learn-more\/\">them out more<\/a>, and the materials currently tell me that they&#8217;re using append-only algorithms, which allow for live schema changes and hot backups, with instantaneous recovery from power failure. Those are just some of the <i>exciting<\/i> bits.<\/p>\n<p>What didn&#8217;t excite me so much was the fact that you were only getting 32-bit or 64-bit Linux binaries, built against MySQL 5.1.31 and you&#8217;ll just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rethinkdb.com\/wiki\/InstallationInstructions\">install<\/a> it via the INSTALL PLUGIN option. But they are trying to get some semblance of a community growing, with their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rethinkdb.com\/wiki\/\">getting involved<\/a> page, filled with some papers, as well as a <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/rethinkdb\">support mailing list<\/a> (I see <a href=\"http:\/\/mysqlha.blogspot.com\/\">Mark Callaghan<\/a> is already busy <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/rethinkdb\/browse_thread\/thread\/5c83534f4d4e9da\">asking them questions<\/a>). And of course you can follow them on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rethinkdb.com\/blog\/\">blog<\/a>, or on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/rethinkdb\">Twitter<\/a>. All this without source ;-)<\/p>\n<p>One of the developers also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2009\/07\/28\/yc-funded-rethinkdb-a-mysql-storage-engine-built-from-the-ground-up-for-ssds\/#comment-2886506\">confirmed<\/a> that they&#8217;re adding &#8220;features required by WordPress so we could eat our own dogfood&#8221;. They haven&#8217;t started profiling (much yet?), and they&#8217;ve probably got ways to go on performance. Seems like &#8220;getting it working for WordPress&#8221;, is slowly becoming a good testing ground &#8211; Jeff Waugh did so for <a href=\"http:\/\/bethesignal.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/08\/wordpress-and-drizzle\/\">WordPress and Drizzle<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it seems like its time to get some SSDs, as we start seeing things like this pop up. RethinkDB will also face another problem for mass adoption &#8211; how many hosting providers are using SSDs? Probably not many (if at all). <\/p>\n<p>Have you tried RethinkDB? Your thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RethinkDB is all the rage today, as its a Y Combinator funded startup, which also launched a developer pre-alpha today. So what is RethinkDB you ask? Yet-another-MySQL-storage-engine, that&#8217;s what. 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