";s:4:"text";s:5464:" That said, Akhmechet's biggest problem isn't MongoDB. By his own admission, RethinkDB was constantly three years behind the market, a market defined by MongoDB. Hard...but not optional. That's like two startups in one. It inverts the traditional database architecture by exposing an exciting new access model – instead of polling for changes, the developer can tell RethinkDB to continuously push updated query results to applications in realtime. ® Public and voluntary sector welcome to buy from framework agreement winners No, the same challenge looms for Oracle that threatens RethinkDB, MongoDB, and every other would-be database contender: The cloud. It made data storage fast, and let people ship products quickly." It was previously licensed under the The GNU Affero General Public License, Version 3 (AGPLv3) troubles companies offering cloud services Bryan Cantrill, CTO of Joyent, has referred to the AGPL as Slava Akhmechet, cofounder of RethinkDB, expressed skepticism that RethinkDB's commercial failure can be attributed to the AGPL. After more than seven years of development, the company behind RethinkDB is shutting down. Thank you all! What is RethinkDB? Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who has written for CNET, ReadWrite, and other tech media. Defmacro: RethinkDB - Why we failed; The Register: RethinkDB is dead?
The problem for a startup attempting this cloudy course of action is two-fold. RethinkDB with a RocksDB backend. We’re pleased to announce the availability of the long-awaited release: RethinkDB 2.4.0 (Night Of The Living Dead). The artist formerly known as Advanced Computer Software Group confirms redundancies
RethinkDB has bounced back from the passing of its corporate parent last year to land under the protection of The Linux Foundation and a more business-friendly software license.
Join our daily or weekly newsletters, subscribe to a specific section or set Now about that ageing software estate and those lucrative licences... For a complete list of changes in this update, you can refer to the release notes. Instead, the cloud is to blame. "The argument strikes me as entirely pedantic – plenty of companies that claimed to ban AGPL run vanilla Mongo because it's a useful project, and the creditor has no legal course (nor incentive) to hurt the open-source project," he explained in Now working at Stripe, Akhmechet offered a different interpretation of his company's failure: "We picked a terrible market and optimized the product for the wrong metrics of goodness," he said in a lengthy Whatever took down the company, its open source database has another chance to sink or swim under its own merits, with a little help from its community of fans. Comment and share: RethinkDB is dead, and MongoDB isn't what killed it RethinkDB hit the skids, but not because MongoDB.
Hear from Steve Sibley, VP of Offering Management for IBM Power Systems about how IBM Power Systems can enable hybrid cloud environments that support “build once, deploy anywhere” options. Before the issue is closed, I would be curious to hear some detail about the extent to which RethinkDB is 'alive', if that's at all possible. All rights reserved. RethinkDB is dead, and MongoDB isn't what killed it by Matt Asay in Big Data on January 24, 2017, 4:00 AM PST RethinkDB hit the skids, but not because MongoDB. A well-crafted IR plan will help your organization perform at its best by preparing for the worst. First, enterprises generally don't trust a startup to hold their data in the cloud. According to industry analysts, a critical element for secure hybrid multicloud environments is the storage infrastructure. Contributions.
Despite this somewhat tautological conclusion, I do admire Akhmechet's willingness to come to grips with the fact that his business got bested by MongoDB, a product he viewed as distinctly inferior. It's obviously an open source project with fairly recent commits and a number of contributors who are working really hard to improve it. This infographic shows how to quickly cut the costs of storing and managing your unstructured data with Komprise Intelligent Data Management.
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In a thoughtful and unsparing post, RethinkDB founder According to Akhmechet, RethinkDB was destined to be the In other words, RethinkDB "coulda been a contender" if only it had the right product in the right market.