Release of RethinkDB 1.7, distributed JSON Database

RethinkDB was first used as a MySQL storage engine specially optimized for SSD. It features full utilization of SSD. Currently, RethinkDB is separated from MySQL to become an independent storage. RethinkDB supports various underlying storage: SSD, traditional disks, and cloud storage services such as AWS.

RethinkDB currently supports almost all 64-bit Linux releases, including:

• Ubuntu 10.04.1 x86_64
• Ubuntu 10.10 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 x86_64
• CentOS 5 x86_64
• SUSE Linux 10

Released RethinkDB 1.7. The improvements include:

• Provides CSV and JSON Import and Export tools
• Supports hot backup and recovery
• ReQL supports atomic set and get operations.
• Powerful new syntax for processing nested documents
• Document insertion performance increased by more than 10 times
• Provides Native Binary for CentOS and RHEL
• A large number of ReQL improvements

30 other bugs and improvements are included. For more information, see here.

RethinkDB is a distributed database designed to store JSON documents. It can be used for Distributed Storage on multiple hosts through simple operations. Supports table union and group query.

Features:

Simple programming model

• JSON data model and consistency
• Distributed joint query, subquery, aggregate query, and atomic update operations
• Hadoop-style map/reduce.

Easy Management

• Provides friendly Web and command line management tools
• Careful handling of server and network faults
• Multi-Data Center replication and Failover

Horizontal scaling

• Partition and copy data to multiple nodes
• Automatic parallel query and Distributed Query
• Implement lock-free operations through MVCC concurrency