Openwest 2015 - Michael Glukhovsky - “RethinkDB: Advancing the realtime Web“ (220)

RethinkDB is the first open-source, scalable database designed from the ground up for the realtime web. Traditional databases use a query-response database access model. That works well on the web because it maps directly to HTTP’s request-response. However, modern marketplaces, streaming analytics apps, multiplayer games, and collaborative web and mobile apps require sending data directly to the client in realtime. For example, when a user changes the position of a button in a collaborative design app, t