The document discusses options for running RethinkDB on Oracle Linux. There are three main options: 1) on bare metal servers, 2) within Oracle VM virtual machines, or 3) using Oracle Cloud. A fourth option discussed is using Docker containers with RethinkDB. The document provides guidance on installing RethinkDB, including needing to compile Google Protocol Buffers and using a RethinkDB YUM repository. It also reviews checking the RethinkDB installation and provides contact information.

1. RethinkDB on Oracle Linux
Johan Louwers – Johan.Louwers@capgemini.com

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 What is RethinkDB?
RethinkDB is the first open-source, scalable JSON database built from the
ground up for the realtime web. It inverts the traditional database
architecture by exposing an exciting new access model – instead of polling
for changes, the developer can tell RethinkDB to continuously push updated
query results to applications in realtime. RethinkDB’s realtime push
architecture dramatically reduces the time and effort necessary to build
scalable realtime apps.
In addition to being designed from the ground up for realtime apps,
RethinkDB offers a flexible query language, intuitive operations and
monitoring APIs, and is easy to setup and learn.
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 When is RethinkDB a good choice?
RethinkDB is a great choice when your applications could benefit from
realtime feeds to your data.
The query-response database access model works well on the web because
it maps directly to HTTP’s request-response. However, modern applications
require sending data directly to the client in realtime. Use cases where
companies benefited from RethinkDB’s realtime push architecture include:
• Collaborative web and mobile apps
• Streaming analytics apps
• Multiplayer games
• Realtime marketplaces
• Connected devices
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 3+1 main options
3+1 main options for running RethinkDB with Oracle Linux
Oracle Linux Bare Metal Oracle VM and Oracle Linux Oracle Compute Cloud Option 1 – 3 + Docker

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 Oracle Linux and RethinkDB on bare-metal
Even though the tendency is to move more and more to virtualized and
cloud based deployments a bare-metal deployment is still a good solution in
certain cases.
Some pointers :
• In case of high performance demands
• In case of the lack of a private cloud and no option to move public
• In case of a corporate rule to only use bare-metal deployment
Oracle Linux Bare Metal

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 Oracle Linux and RethinkDB on Oracle VM
Running systems on a virtualized environment is common way of deploying
environments. You can use Oracle VM in combination with standard X86
hardware or Oracle Private Cloud Appliances to build a private cloud and
run virtual machines with RethinkDB on this.
Some pointers :
• Provides a flexible environment
• Added HA solutions with Oracle VM
• (semi-) automated deployment of RethinkDB systems
• Self-Service portal functionality by using Oracle Enterprise Manager IaaS
Oracle VM and Oracle Linux

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 Oracle Linux and RethinkDB on Oracle Cloud
Oracle Cloud is capable of hosting virtual Oracle Linux environments. By
using Oracle cloud you are able to host Oracle Linux machines running
RehtinkDB. This is the ideal way to start with RethinkDB and quickly setup
an environment
Some pointers :
• Provides a flexible environment
• Cloud hosted – pay per use
• (semi-) automated deployment of RethinkDB systems
• Ability to use templates containing your specific RethinkDB installation
Oracle Compute Cloud

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 Oracle Linux and RethinkDB in combination with Docker
Docker containers wrap up a piece of software in a complete filesystem that
contains everything it needs to run: code, runtime, system tools, system
libraries – anything you can install on a server. This guarantees that it will
always run the same, regardless of the environment it is running in.
Some pointers :
• Docker is a great way of dploying RethinkDB
• Use the following command to get started : docker pull rethinkdb

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 RethinkDB installation and Google Protocol Buffers
Protocol buffers are a language-neutral, platform-neutral extensible
mechanism for serializing structured data.
• Google Protocol Buffers (ProtoBuf) is required for RethinkDB
• ProtoBuf is not available as an RPM for Oracle Linux.
• You will have to compile ProtoBuf yourself
$ git clone https://github.com/google/protobuf
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make check
$ make install

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 RethinkDB installation on Oracle Linux
RethinkDB is not on the Oracle Linux YUM repository. You will have to use
the RethinkDB YUM repository for CentOS
$ wget https://download.rethinkdb.com/centos/6/x86_64/rethinkdb.repo -O
/etc/yum.repos.d/rethinkdb.repo
$ yum -y install rethinkdb
$ rm -f /etc/yum.repos.d/rethinkdb.repo

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 RethinkDB installation on Oracle Linux
To make life more easy…. We created a full installation script which can be
downloaded from GitHub.
https://github.com/louwersj/Oracle-Linux-Scripting/blob/master/install_scripts/non-
prod/installRetinkDB.sh

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 RethinkDB check installation
• Make sure RethinkDB is running
• Make sure RethinkDB is available on localhost:8080
•Enable none-local interfaces by using --bind all

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 Contact & questions
Johan Louwers
• Lead Architect – Capgemini Global Oracle Architect Office
• Oracle Ace Director
Blog : johanlouwers.blogspot.com
Web : https://www.capgemini.com/experts/oracle-and-cloud-computing/johan-louwers
Twitter : @johanlouwers
LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanlouwers
Mail : louwersj@gmail.com / johan.louwers@capgemini.com

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