Posted by Michael on October 27th, 2009.
We know all too well that everyone has problems with their databases. We want to hear about your database problems, and if you tell us about them, you could win a RethinkDB sweatshirt.
We’re working hard to make RethinkDB as fast, scalable, and flexible as possible. We don’t do this with magic, but by designing RethinkDB for today’s hardware and access patterns. You can help by giving us a clearer picture of what kind of hardware you’re using and what kind of workloads you’re experiencing.
You can find the survey at http://www.rethinkdb.com/survey/. The best responses will get an awesome new RethinkDB sweatshirt, so you can be the envy of all your friends!
If you’d like us to follow up with you, make sure to check off the last question in the survey. If you’re in the Bay Area, we might even buy you lunch.
Scalability demands, rising hardware costs, administration woes, and performance concerns are all fair game. We’re here for you, so tell us your problems.
We know all too well that most companies face database scalability and administration problems. We’re working hard to make RethinkDB as fast, scalable, and flexible as possible. We use a little bit of magic and a lot of engineering for today’s hardware and access patterns. You can help by telling us what your infrastructure and workloads look like. We want you to tell us about your database problems, and in exchange we’ll send a RethinkDB sweatshirt to the best responses.
You can find the survey at http://www.rethinkdb.com/survey/. If you’d like us to follow up with you, make sure to check off the last checkbox. If you’re in the Bay Area, we’ll be happy to buy you lunch for your troubles.
Scalability demands, rising hardware costs, administration struggles, and performance concerns are all fair game. We’re here for you – tell us about your database woes.
Posted by Slava on July 24th, 2009.
Today, we’re ready to announce RethinkDB — a new kind of database. It’s been a winding road. For two years, Mike, Leif, and I have been thinking independently on how to bring a breath of fresh air to the database world. Three months ago, we came together to form a company and bring our ideas to reality. In these three months, we’ve raised seed funding from Y Combinator, moved to California, and built a MySQL plugin that implements the core of our vision — a storage engine redesigned for the modern world. With the exception of storage technology, database design has always been beautiful. Now, with dropping costs of storage, the advent of solid state drives, and advances in functional data structures theory, we can finally replace that last messy component of database management systems with an elegant, beautiful solution.
Much work remains to be done. RethinkDB isn’t ready for general production use. So, why release it today? At a recent Y Combinator dinner, Reid Hoffman (the founder of LinkedIn) said: “If you’re not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.” We’re launching too late. The article you’re reading now is served by a WordPress installation running live on RethinkDB. Many of our internal benchmarks outperform a stock MySQL setup. We’re no longer terrified of data corruption (though we still keep our fingers crossed). We’re using RethinkDB for painless hot backups. The time is long overdue for us to share our work with you.
We are committed to building an open, socially responsible company. In the coming weeks we will be releasing as much information about the RethinkDB internals as possible without compromising its commercial success. In the meantime, we’d like to welcome your feedback.
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