RethinkDB Blog

RethinkDB 2.0 is now production ready

We’re proud to announce that after five years of development, RethinkDB is ready for production. Download RethinkDB 2.0 ( Yojimbo ) now!

RethinkDB 2.1 is out: high availability

Today we’re proud to announce RethinkDB 2.1 ( Forbidden Planet ). Download it now !

RethinkDB 1.16: cluster management API, realtime push

The 1.16 release is a precursor to the upcoming 2.0 release, and is the biggest RethinkDB release to date with over 300 enhancements . This release includes two exciting new features: a comprehensive API for large cluster management, and realtime push functionality that dramatically simplifies the development of…

Advancing the realtime web

Over the past few months the team at RethinkDB has been working on a project to make building modern, realtime apps dramatically easier. The upcoming features are the start of an exciting new database access model – instead of polling the database for changes, the developer can tell RethinkDB to continuously push…

RethinkDB 1.5 released: secondary indexes, soft durability, perf improvements

We are pleased to announce RethinkDB 1.5 ( The Graduate), so go download it now !

RethinkDB 2.3: user accounts, network encryption, Windows support

Today we’re pleased to announce the release of RethinkDB 2.3 (Fantasia). Download it now !

RethinkDB 2.4.1

We’re pleased to announce the availability of RethinkDB 2.4.1. This update includes bug fixes, build improvements and the reintroduced update checker. For a complete list of changes in this update, you can refer to the release notes . Don’t forget that we replaced our download server, please read our latest blog post .

RethinkDB 1.3 is out, now available on OS X

We’ve released RethinkDB 1.3 ( Metropolis ) which has a large number of enhancements, and adds support for OS X and several other platforms. As of the 1.3 release, the server can now be installed on the following platforms:

RethinkDB 1.12: simplified map/reduce, ARM port, new caching infrastructure

Today, we’re happy to announce RethinkDB 1.12 ( The Wizard of Oz ). Download it now!

RethinkDB 1.7: hot backup, atomic set/get, 10x insert performance improvement

Etienne Laurin ( @atnnn ), an engineer at RethinkDB, introduces these new features in this one-minute video:

RethinkDB 1.6 is out: regex matching, new array operations, random sampling

This release includes regex string matching, fourteen new array operations, support for random sampling, error handling improvements, support for authentication keys, and over 65 bug fixes, features, and enhancements.

Developer Preview: RethinkDB Now Available for Windows

We’re pleased to announce today that RethinkDB is now available for Windows . You can download a Developer Preview of our Windows build, which runs natively on Microsoft’s operating system.

RethinkDB 1.14: binary data, seamless migration, and Python 3 support

Upgrading on Ubuntu? If you’re upgrading from 1.12 or earlier, first set up the new RethinkDB PPA .

RethinkDB 1.13: pull data via HTTP, push data via changefeeds

Today, we’re happy to announce RethinkDB 1.13 ( My Name is Nobody ). Download it now!

RethinkDB Driver for Java now available

Today, we’re pleased to announce the release of our Java client driver for RethinkDB. Visit the installation instructions for details about how to use it in your Java project.

RethinkDB 1.15: Geospatial queries

Today, we’re happy to announce RethinkDB 1.15 ( Lawrence of Arabia ). Download it now!

RethinkDB 1.8: date support, querying nested objects, 8x disk usage improvements

Michael Lucy ( @mlucy ), an engineer at RethinkDB, introduces these new features in this two-minute video:

Announcing RethinkDB 2.3.6: the first release under community governance

We’re pleased to announce the availability of RethinkDB 2.3.6, the first release since RethinkDB transitioned to community governance. This update includes a range of bugfixes and stability improvements. For a complete list of changes in this update, you can refer to the release notes .

RethinkDB 1.11 is out: query profiler, new streaming algorithm, devops features

Today, we’re happy to announce RethinkDB 1.11 ( Breakfast at Tiffany’s ), which improves the experience of operating live RethinkDB deployments. Download it now!

Will the real programmers please stand up?

RethinkDB 1.9: Indexing and query runtime performance

This release includes massive enhancements that improve performance of many queries by orders of magnitude. See the full list of enhancements , or watch Joe Doliner ( @jdoliner ), an engineer at RethinkDB, talk about the 1.9 release in this two-minute video:

RethinkDB internals: making coroutines fast