Comments on: RethinkDB – A New Kind of Database http://www.rethinkdb.com/blog/2009/07/rethinkdb-a-new-kind-of-database/ Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 29 Aug 2010 15:29:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Travell Perkins http://www.rethinkdb.com/blog/2009/07/rethinkdb-a-new-kind-of-database/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Travell Perkins Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:07:57 +0000 http://rethinkdb.no-ip.org/blog/?p=3#comment-25 I look forward to you guys getting out of the starting blocks. I'm not sure where Rackspace and MediaTemple are at the moment, but you need to talk to these leaders in the cloud computing space. They both are in need of advances in their operational db offerings. I know that Joyent has done some recent work on a no maintenance cloud offering for MySQL through work directly with Sun. SolidDB has some interesting work done with DB indexes, they presented at the recent MySQL Conf. Take care and best of luck. -Travell Travell Perkins CEO / Chief Midnight Coder RGB Daily, LLC I look forward to you guys getting out of the starting blocks. I’m not sure where Rackspace and MediaTemple are at the moment, but you need to talk to these leaders in the cloud computing space. They both are in need of advances in their operational db offerings. I know that Joyent has done some recent work on a no maintenance cloud offering for MySQL through work directly with Sun. SolidDB has some interesting work done with DB indexes, they presented at the recent MySQL Conf. Take care and best of luck.

-Travell

Travell Perkins
CEO / Chief Midnight Coder
RGB Daily, LLC

]]> By: Max Niederhofer http://www.rethinkdb.com/blog/2009/07/rethinkdb-a-new-kind-of-database/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Max Niederhofer Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:45:47 +0000 http://rethinkdb.no-ip.org/blog/?p=3#comment-24 Can't wait to see your demo! Max Can’t wait to see your demo!

Max

]]> By: Slava http://www.rethinkdb.com/blog/2009/07/rethinkdb-a-new-kind-of-database/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Slava Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:40:11 +0000 http://rethinkdb.no-ip.org/blog/?p=3#comment-14 <strong>Juan</strong>: a lot of people have asked us for this. We don't have public benchmarks yet. We'll write a blog post tomorrow explaining the situation in detail and giving out more information about our performance. Juan: a lot of people have asked us for this. We don’t have public benchmarks yet. We’ll write a blog post tomorrow explaining the situation in detail and giving out more information about our performance.

]]> By: Michael http://www.rethinkdb.com/blog/2009/07/rethinkdb-a-new-kind-of-database/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Michael Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:26:02 +0000 http://rethinkdb.no-ip.org/blog/?p=3#comment-13 <strong>Michael: </strong>Thanks for bringing potential copyright infringement issues to our attention! <br /> After more research, we realized that Alessandro Rei may not have had the right to release all of the icons in his icon sets as GPL. Rather than figuring out their provenance, we decided to just change the icons (which are now all GPL). If you notice any other issues, please let us know (<span class="mh-plaintext">foun<a href='http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01mEopN6xz3PUFbr4Ij8gv5A==&c=cPNabgVUWNhNhQ8te2_BfBY2dawEWIHd2JAnxbXVOb8=' onclick="window.open('http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01mEopN6xz3PUFbr4Ij8gv5A==&c=cPNabgVUWNhNhQ8te2_BfBY2dawEWIHd2JAnxbXVOb8=', '', 'toolbar=0,scrollbars=0,location=0,statusbar=0,menubar=0,resizable=0,width=500,height=300'); return false;" title="Reveal this e-mail address">...</a>@rethinkdb.com</span>). Michael: Thanks for bringing potential copyright infringement issues to our attention!

After more research, we realized that Alessandro Rei may not have had the right to release all of the icons in his icon sets as GPL. Rather than figuring out their provenance, we decided to just change the icons (which are now all GPL). If you notice any other issues, please let us know (foun…@rethinkdb.com).

]]> By: Juan Sequeda http://www.rethinkdb.com/blog/2009/07/rethinkdb-a-new-kind-of-database/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Juan Sequeda Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:23:09 +0000 http://rethinkdb.no-ip.org/blog/?p=3#comment-12 This looks really cool! Do you have any public available info on the benchmarks you have done? This looks really cool! Do you have any public available info on the benchmarks you have done?

]]> By: Slava http://www.rethinkdb.com/blog/2009/07/rethinkdb-a-new-kind-of-database/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Slava Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:34:14 +0000 http://rethinkdb.no-ip.org/blog/?p=3#comment-11 <strong>Roland</strong>: right now the engine is not transactional. We've only been at it for two months, and we had to get many other things done. Transactions are certainly on the roadmap - we'll be implementing poor man's transactions (a single writer at a time, but ability to rollback) shortly. This will be enough for most OLTP applications (which have very short transactions). We'll implement full transaction support some time in the near future (not as fast as we'd like, but probably sooner than you think). <strong>Robbert</strong>: we certainly know of herodotus. They're targetting a very different market, and from what I understand their IP doesn't cover ours. We're working on patenting our indexing scheme, which is very different from herodotus (from what we've been able to gauge). Roland: right now the engine is not transactional. We’ve only been at it for two months, and we had to get many other things done. Transactions are certainly on the roadmap – we’ll be implementing poor man’s transactions (a single writer at a time, but ability to rollback) shortly. This will be enough for most OLTP applications (which have very short transactions). We’ll implement full transaction support some time in the near future (not as fast as we’d like, but probably sooner than you think).
Robbert: we certainly know of herodotus. They’re targetting a very different market, and from what I understand their IP doesn’t cover ours. We’re working on patenting our indexing scheme, which is very different from herodotus (from what we’ve been able to gauge).

]]> By: Robbert van Dalen http://www.rethinkdb.com/blog/2009/07/rethinkdb-a-new-kind-of-database/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Robbert van Dalen Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:54:53 +0000 http://rethinkdb.no-ip.org/blog/?p=3#comment-10 I don't want to spoil the party, but have you guys checked http://www.herodotus.biz? (currently offline). The herodotus database engine appears to be very similar to your database (append-only) but is patented. I don’t want to spoil the party, but have you guys checked http://www.herodotus.biz? (currently offline).
The herodotus database engine appears to be very similar to your database (append-only) but is patented.

]]> By: Tim Trueman http://www.rethinkdb.com/blog/2009/07/rethinkdb-a-new-kind-of-database/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Tim Trueman Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:19:04 +0000 http://rethinkdb.no-ip.org/blog/?p=3#comment-9 I've been hoping someone was working this…congrats on getting something out there! I’ve been hoping someone was working this…congrats on getting something out there!

]]> By: Roland Bouman http://www.rethinkdb.com/blog/2009/07/rethinkdb-a-new-kind-of-database/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Roland Bouman Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:00:16 +0000 http://rethinkdb.no-ip.org/blog/?p=3#comment-8 Hi! hey, this sounds like an incredibly interesting project/product! I know I should probably be downloading documentation so I can look it up myself, but what i was wondering about is this: is your storage engine transactional? TIA, Roland. Hi!

hey, this sounds like an incredibly interesting project/product!

I know I should probably be downloading documentation so I can look it up myself, but what i was wondering about is this: is your storage engine transactional?

TIA,

Roland.

]]> By: Michael http://www.rethinkdb.com/blog/2009/07/rethinkdb-a-new-kind-of-database/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Michael Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:48:50 +0000 http://rethinkdb.no-ip.org/blog/?p=3#comment-7 I have serious doubts that "Alessandro Rei" has the rights to redistribute that hammer and blueprint icon and suggest that you check up on it. Beyond copyright concerns, you may very well be infringing on Apple trademarks to use that image on your site. Furthermore, it just seems incredibly unprofessional to see an icon that much of the development community associates with Apple's development tools featured on the page of an unrelated product. I have serious doubts that “Alessandro Rei” has the rights to redistribute that hammer and blueprint icon and suggest that you check up on it. Beyond copyright concerns, you may very well be infringing on Apple trademarks to use that image on your site. Furthermore, it just seems incredibly unprofessional to see an icon that much of the development community associates with Apple’s development tools featured on the page of an unrelated product.

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