rethinkdb-go

I've tried the (unofficial) rethinkdb client for Go and it's been working great for me. https://github.com/dancannon/gorethink. Is there a particular reason why you prefer an official one over this?

This is what I like about Go. This "small introduction" is basically everything there is to know about struct tags. Bonus, Gorethink tags [0] and how we use them at Lavaboom [1]. 0: https://github.com/dancannon/gorethink#encodingdecoding-stru... 1: https://github.com/lavab/api/tree/master/models

Have used RethinkDB with a few projects now, mainly in Go with dancannon's Go driver[1], and have found it very functional and robust and has become my go-to schemaless database. My largest project has been running a couple of years now and has accumulated a significant amount of data, and RethinkDB hasn't had any trouble at all scaling with my data growth. I'm running it on servers below the recommended requirements too (512MB DO instances) and have been really impressed with how it handles constrained resources. [1] https://github.com/dancannon/gorethink

I contributed the benchmarks to Dan's gorethink driver. Dan is great to collaborate with so if you want to hack on Go and contribute to OSS, consider giving his project a look. One way to improve writes is to batch them, an example is here. https://github.com/dancannon/gorethink/blob/master/benchmark... I believe rethinkdb docs state that 200 is the optimum batch size. Another way is to enable the soft durability mode. http://rethinkdb.com/api/javascript/insert/ "In soft durability mode RethinkDB will acknowledge the write immediately after receiving and caching it, but before the write has been committed to disk." https://github.com/dancannon/gorethink/blob/master/benchmark... Obviously your business requirements come into play. I prefer the Hard writes because my data is important to me but I do insert debug messages using soft writes i

Just released the latest update to the Go driver, it has some pretty big changes including the ability to connect to a RethinkDB cluster + automatic host discovery. For more information check out https://github.com/dancannon/gorethink/releases/tag/v0.7.0.

That's good to hear, because the Go driver has been exhaustively maintained by a single developer (https://github.com/dancannon/gorethink) Dan Cannon, and I'm sure he (as well as the Go community) would love to see some support.

I have been using RethinkDB for a while now (although mostly for small side projects + maintaining the Go driver https://github.com/dancannon/gorethink) and have really enjoyed it, having a functional query language is quite refreshing. The recent introduction of change feeds are also really cool, building a realtime app with websockets was surprisingly easy. Honestly I would recommend RethinkDB to anybody looking to start a new (small-medium sized) project. While there are some small performance issues this is to be expected for a project at this early stage and after seeing how the RethinkDB team works I am confident that these will be sorted pretty quickly.

I tried it out recently. I discovered that the Go client has some important issues. https://github.com/dancannon/gorethink/issues/125 I feel bad to bring this up because it is not the rethinkdb authors' fault (as this is a third-party client) but from this user's perspective it took me some debugging before I realized that rethinkdb wasn't necessarily slow.

Hi! I haven't used these particular drivers, but the community go-lang driver (https://github.com/dancannon/gorethink) is reportedly excellent, and the new Java/JVM driver (https://github.com/npiv/rethink-java-driver) is supposed to be quite good. We've been working really hard to keep the surface area of the product minimal so the dev team can stay nimble, which so far allowed us to ship features and stability improvements very quickly. We have a lot of really exciting updates planned for the next few releases, so we'd like to stick to the current model for now. After that, we'll start expanding the dev team and bringing some of the community drivers under the official RethinkDB umbrella. I don't have an ETA for this yet, but I expect this will happen within a year or so.