A full-stack RethinkDB integration for Meteor with live queries, pub/sub, and latency compensation.
Slava/meteor-rethinkdb is a Meteor package that integrates RethinkDB as a database backend for Meteor applications. It provides full-stack real-time capabilities, including live queries, publish/subscribe patterns, and latency compensation, allowing developers to build responsive web and mobile apps. The package enables direct ReQL query access and a client-side cache, replacing MongoDB with RethinkDB in Meteor projects.
Meteor developers who want to use RethinkDB instead of MongoDB for their real-time applications, particularly those needing advanced querying and live data updates.
Developers choose this package for its seamless integration of RethinkDB's powerful query language with Meteor's real-time ecosystem, offering latency compensation and a client-side cache without sacrificing Meteor's core features.
RethinkDB integration for Meteor
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Provides raw access to RethinkDB using ReQL on both server and client, enabling powerful querying without ORM overhead, as shown by the support for ReQL's JavaScript API in queries.
Seamlessly integrates with Meteor's publication/subscription model and latency compensation, allowing for optimistic UI updates and live data synchronization, as outlined in the goals.
Includes a client-side cache accessible via ReQL, using Reqlite for in-browser simulations, which enhances performance and developer ergonomics for real-time apps.
Supports live queries for real-time data updates, leveraging RethinkDB's capabilities within Meteor's ecosystem, as evidenced by the livequery feature.
Currently only supports point queries and simple order/limit queries in publications, restricting the complexity of real-time data flows, as admitted in the README.
The README explicitly states it's a work in progress and not ready for prime-time, indicating potential bugs, incomplete features like user account storage, and lack of production stability.
Requires creating tables manually in RethinkDB and configuring environment variables, unlike Meteor's seamless MongoDB integration where collections are auto-created, adding setup complexity.