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                <h1>The open-source database <span>for the realtime web</span></h1>
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                <h1>RethinkDB pushes JSON to your apps <strong>in realtime</strong>.</h1>
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                    When your app polls for data, it becomes slow, unscalable,
                    and cumbersome to maintain.
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                    RethinkDB is the open-source, scalable database
                    that makes building realtime apps dramatically
                    easier.
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                <p class="query">r.table(<span class="term">'game'</span>).orderBy(<span class="term">'score'</span>).limit(<span class="term">3</span>).changes()</p>
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                            <li>1.</li>
                            <li>2.</li>
                            <li>3.</li>
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            <h1>Building <strong>realtime</strong> apps just got easy</h1>
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                            Web apps like <a href="http://www.google.com/docs">Google Docs</a>,
                            <a href="https://trello.com/">Trello</a>, and <a
                            href="https://www.quora.com/">Quora</a> pioneered
                            the realtime experience on the web. With RethinkDB, you
                            can build amazing realtime apps with dramatically
                            less engineering effort.
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                        <h3>Multiplayer games</h3>
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                            When a player takes an action in a multiplayer
                            game, every other player in the game needs to see
                            the change in realtime. RethinkDB dramatically
                            simplifies the data infrastructure for low latency,
                            high throughput realtime interactions.
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                        <h3>Realtime marketplaces</h3>
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			  RethinkDB dramatically reduces the
			  complexity of building realtime trading and
			  optimization engines. Publish realtime
			  updates to thousands of clients, and provide
			  pricing updates to users in milliseconds.
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                        <h3>Streaming analytics</h3>
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                            Build realtime dashboards with RethinkDB data
                            push notifications, and make instantaneous business
                            decisions.
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                        <h3>Connected devices</h3>
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                            RethinkDB dramatically simplifies modern IoT
                            infrastructures. Stream data between connected
                            devices, enable messaging and signaling, and
                            trigger actions in millions of devices in
                            milliseconds.
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                <a href="#" class="active">Web + mobile apps</a>
                <a href="#">Multiplayer games</a>
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            <h1>What's in the box?</h1>
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                    <h2>Work with your favorite stack</h2>
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                        Query JSON documents with Python, Ruby, Node.js
                        or <a href="/docs/install-drivers/">dozens of
                        other languages</a>. Build modern apps using
                        your favorite web framework, paired with
                        realtime technologies like <a href="http://socket.io/">Socket.io</a>
                        or <a href="http://signalr.net/">SignalR</a>.
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                    <h2>Robust architecture</h2>
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		      RethinkDB integrates the latest advances in
		      database technology.  It has a modern
		      distributed <a href="/docs/architecture">architecture</a>,
              a highly-optimized buffer cache, and a state-of-the-art 
              storage engine.  All of these components
		      work together to create a robust, scalable,
		      high-performance database.
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                    <h2>Everything you need to build modern apps</h2>
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                        Express relationships using <a href="/docs/table-joins/">joins</a>,
                        build <a href="/docs/geo-support">location-aware apps</a>,
                        or store <a href="/docs/storing-binary">multimedia</a>
                        and <a href="/docs/dates-and-times">time-series</a>
                        data. Do analytics with <a href="/docs/map-reduce/">aggregation and
                        map/reduce</a>, and speed up your apps using
                        flexible <a href="/docs/secondary-indexes">indexing</a>.
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                    <h2>Built with love by the open source community</h2>
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                        Originally developed by a core team of database experts
                        and over 100 contributors from around the
                        world, RethinkDB is shaped by developers like
                        you participating in <a href="/community">an
                        open source community development process</a>.
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                <h1>Scale your cluster in seconds</h1>
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                    When you're ready to scale your app, shard and replicate in
                    a few clicks using an intuitive web UI.
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                    If you need it, a simple API provides precise control over
                    the cluster:
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                <pre><code>r.<span class="term">table</span>(<span class="str">'games'</span>).<span class="term">reconfigure</span>(shards=5, replicas=3)</code></pre>
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                    Monitor your production cluster with live statistics and
                    complete visibility into running jobs:
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                <pre><code>r.<span class="term">db</span>(<span class="str">'rethinkdb'</span>).<span class="term">table</span>(<span class="str">'jobs'</span>).<span class="term">changes</span>()</code></pre>
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