Index

A

• abstraction / An explicit query language
• advanced queries
  • about / Advanced queries
  • limit command / Limits, skips, and sorts, The limit command
  • skip command / The skip command
  • documents, sorting / Sorting documents
  • random document, finding / Finding a random document
  • grouping / Grouping
  • aggregations / Aggregations
• aggregation commands
  • about / Aggregations
  • average command / Average
  • max command / Maximum
  • pluck command / The pluck command
• AJAX
  • about / AJAX
• Amazon Web Services / Securing the web interface
• AMI (Amazon Machine Image) / Deploying RethinkDB
• application logic
  • writing / Writing the application logic
• automatic backups
  • setting up / Setting up automatic backups

B

• batch inserts / Batch inserts, Increasing concurrency
• bulk data import
  • about / Bulk data import
  • formats / Bulk data import
• bulk loader / Bulk data import

C

• CAP theorem / Immediate consistency
• CentOS
  • RethinkDB, installing on / Installing RethinkDB on CentOS and Fedora
• Changefeeds
  • about / Changefeeds
• changefeeds
  • about / Introducing Changefeeds, Changefeeds
  • example / A simple example using Changefeeds
  • implementing / Implementing Changefeeds
• CLI (command-line interface) / Running Node.js
• cluster
  • creating / Creating a cluster
  • server, adding to / Adding a server to the cluster
  • queries, running on / Running queries on the cluster
• compound indexes
  • about / Compound indexes
• Connect
  • about / Express.js
• create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) / Document databases
• CSV format / Bulk data import

D

• daemon
  • RethinkDB, running as / Running as a daemon
• data
  • inserting / Inserting data
  • batch inserts / Batch inserts
  • reading / Reading data
  • results, reading / Filtering results
  • results, manipulating / Manipulating results
  • updating / Updating data
  • existing attributes, updating / Updating existing attributes
  • new attributes, adding / Adding new attributes
  • deleting / Deleting data
  • all documents, removing / Removing all documents
  • table, deleting / Deleting a table
  • base, deleting / Deleting a database
  • scaling / Scaling data
  • backing up / Backing up your data
  • restoring / Restoring your data
• database failure
  • simulating / Failover
• database polling
  • about / Database polling
• database profiler / Evaluating query performance
• database system
  • types / What kind of system is it?
• data modeling / Data modeling
• Debian Linux
  • RethinkDB, installing on / Installing RethinkDB on Ubuntu/Debian Linux
• Django
  • about / Developing web applications with Node.js
• documents
  • about / Documents, Embedded documents
  • database / Document databases
  • JSON format / JSON document format
  • data modeling / Data modeling
  • inserting / Inserting documents
  • reading / Reading documents
  • updating / Updating and deleting documents
  • deleting / Updating and deleting documents
• driver port
  • securing / Securing the driver port

E

• EJS
  • about / Templating
• event-driven programming / An event-driven design
• existing attributes
  • updating / Updating existing attributes
• Express
  • about / Developing web applications with Node.js
• Express.js
  • about / Developing web applications with Node.js, Express.js

F

• Fedora
  • RethinkDB, installing on / Installing RethinkDB on CentOS and Fedora
• frontend
  • programming / Programming the frontend
• full table scan
  • about / Introducing indexing

G

• Gmail
  • about / Examples of real-time web apps

H

• hard durability / Increasing concurrency, Using soft durability mode
• Homebrew
  • reference link / Installing RethinkDB using Homebrew
• HomeBrew
  • used, for installing RethinkDB / Installing RethinkDB using Homebrew
• horizontal scalability (scaling out) / An introduction to scaling
• HTML5
  • about / WebSockets

I

• immediate consistency / Immediate consistency
• index
  • creating / Creating and using an index
  • using / Creating and using an index
• indexing
  • about / Introducing indexing
• installation, RethinkDB
  • about / Installing RethinkDB
  • on Ubuntu / Installing RethinkDB on Ubuntu/Debian Linux
  • on Debian Linux / Installing RethinkDB on Ubuntu/Debian Linux
  • on CentOS / Installing RethinkDB on CentOS and Fedora
  • on Fedora / Installing RethinkDB on CentOS and Fedora
  • on OS X / Installing RethinkDB on OS X
  • Homebrew used / Installing RethinkDB using Homebrew

J

• Jade
  • about / Templating
• joins / Distributed joins
• JSON / Document-oriented
• JSON document format
  • about / JSON document format
  • keys / Keys
  • arrays / Arrays
  • embedded documents / Embedded documents
• JSON format / Bulk data import

L

• Linux
  • Node.js, installing on / Installing on Linux

M

• Mac OS X
  • Node.js, installing on / Installing on Mac OS X
• Memcached
  • about / Message queues
• message queues
  • about / Message queues
• Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC) / Lock-free architecture
• MVC (model-view-controller) pattern / Structuring the Notes web application
• MySQL
  • about / Database polling

N

• new attributes
  • adding / Adding new attributes
• Node.js
  • about / Introducing Node.js
  • increasingly popular technology / An increasingly popular technology
  • event-driven design / An event-driven design
  • installing / Installing Node.js
  • installing, on Linux / Installing on Linux
  • installing, on Mac OS X / Installing on Mac OS X
  • running / Running Node.js
  • web applications, developing with / Developing web applications with Node.js
• Node.js server
  • creating / Creating the Node.js server
• Node.js web applications
  • RethinkDB, using in / Using RethinkDB in Node.js web applications
• Notes web application
  • structuring / Structuring the Notes web application
• NPM (Node Package Manager)
  • about / Installing the RethinkDB module
• null character / Keys

O

• OS X
  • RethinkDB, installing on / Installing RethinkDB on OS X

P

• PaaS (platform as a service) / Deploying RethinkDB
• page cache / Increasing the cache size
• performance tuning
  • about / Performance tuning
  • cache size, increasing / Increasing the cache size
  • concurrency, increasing / Increasing concurrency
  • soft durability mode, using / Using soft durability mode
• polling
  • about / Polling

Q

• queries
  • running, on cluster / Running queries on the cluster
• query
  • building / Building a query
• query performance
  • evaluating / Evaluating query performance

R

• Rails
  • about / Developing web applications with Node.js
• read queries
  • scaling / Scaling reads
• real-time web applications
  • about / Introducing real-time web applications, Your first real-time web application
  • examples / Examples of real-time web apps
  • on web / Going real time on the Web
• record / Documents
• Redis
  • about / Message queues
• replication
  • about / Replication
  • advantages / Replication
  • secondary replica, adding / Adding a secondary replica
  • failover / Failover
• ReQL / Powerful query language
  • about / Introducing ReQL
  • as explicit query language / An explicit query language
  • query, building / Building a query
• results
  • filtering / Filtering results
  • manipulating / Manipulating results
• RethinkDB
  • about / Rethinking the database
  • URL / Installing RethinkDB on OS X
  • installing, Homebrew used / Installing RethinkDB using Homebrew
  • building, from source / Building RethinkDB from source
  • configuring / Configuring RethinkDB
  • running, as daemon / Running as a daemon
  • configuration file, creating / Creating a configuration file
  • starting / Starting RethinkDB
  • query, running / Running a query
  • clustering / Clustering RethinkDB
  • clustering, advantages / Clustering RethinkDB
  • types of indexes / Introducing indexing
  • securing / Securing RethinkDB
  • web interface, securing / Securing the web interface
  • driver port, securing / Securing the driver port
  • monitoring / Monitoring RethinkDB
  • monitoring issues / Monitoring issues
  • running jobs, monitoring / Monitoring running jobs
  • deploying / Deploying RethinkDB
  • using, in Node.js web applications / Using RethinkDB in Node.js web applications
  • interacting with / Interacting with RethinkDB
• RethinkDB, features
  • Changefeeds / Changefeeds
  • horizontal scalability / Horizontal scalability
  • powerful query language / Powerful query language
  • developer-oriented / Developer-oriented
  • document-oriented / Document-oriented
  • lock-free architecture / Lock-free architecture
  • immediate consistency / Immediate consistency
  • secondary indexes / Secondary indexes
  • distributed joins / Distributed joins
• RethinkDB, installing
  • about / Installing RethinkDB
  • on Ubuntu / Installing RethinkDB on Ubuntu/Debian Linux
  • on Debian Linux / Installing RethinkDB on Ubuntu/Debian Linux
  • on CentOS / Installing RethinkDB on CentOS and Fedora
  • on Fedora / Installing RethinkDB on CentOS and Fedora
  • on OS X / Installing RethinkDB on OS X
• RethinkDB administration tools
  • about / RethinkDB administration tools
  • data, backing up / Backing up your data
  • single table, backing up / Backing up a single table
  • automatic backups, setting up / Setting up automatic backups
• RethinkDB import utility / Bulk data import
• RethinkDB module
  • installing / Installing the RethinkDB module
  • connecting to / Connecting to RethinkDB
  • simple query, running / Running a simple query
• router
  • configuring / Configuring the router
• routing
  • about / Routing
• routing table
  • about / Routing

S

• safe configuration / Increasing concurrency
• scaling
  • about / An introduction to scaling
  • vertical scalability (scaling up ) / An introduction to scaling
  • horizontal scalability (scaling out ) / An introduction to scaling
  • database / An introduction to scaling
  • read query / Scaling reads
  • write queries / Scaling writes
  • data / Scaling data
• secondary indexes / Secondary indexes
• secondary replica
  • adding / Adding a secondary replica
• seed node / Creating a cluster
• server
  • adding, to cluster / Adding a server to the cluster
• server time / Evaluating query performance
• settings, configuration file
  • bind / Creating a configuration file
  • driver-port / Creating a configuration file
  • cluster-port / Creating a configuration file
  • http-port / Creating a configuration file
  • join / Creating a configuration file
• sharded / Horizontal scalability
• sharding
  • about / Scaling writes, Sharding
• single table
  • backing up / Backing up a single table
• Socket.io
  • about / Socket.io
  • programming / Programming Socket.io
• soft durability / Using soft durability mode
• source
  • RethinkDB, building from / Building RethinkDB from source
• stateless request-response cycle
  • about / Going real time on the Web

T

• table
  • sharding / Sharding a table
• templating
  • about / Templating
• transformers / An explicit query language
• Twitter
  • about / Examples of real-time web apps

U

• Ubuntu
  • RethinkDB, installing on / Installing RethinkDB on Ubuntu/Debian Linux
• Universal Unique Identifier (UUID) / Document databases
• updates
  • position updates / Programming Socket.io
  • notes updates / Programming Socket.io
• user interface (UI) / The view

V

• vertical scalability (scaling up ) / An introduction to scaling
• view
  • about / The view

W

• web application
  • running / Running our web application
• web applications
  • developing, with Node.js / Developing web applications with Node.js
• web interface
  • about / RethinkDB administration tools
  • securing / Securing the web interface
• WebSockets
  • about / WebSockets
• write queries
  • scaling / Scaling writes

Y

• Yellowdog Updater, Modified (YUM) / Installing RethinkDB on CentOS and Fedora