RethinkDB 2.0: The Real‑Time Database Upgrade You Need to Know

RethinkDB 2.0 has been officially released after five years of development, featuring over 2,000 improvements, 16 major version iterations, and more than 3,000 commits on GitHub.

The new version simplifies application development by enabling continuous live queries and leveraging a distributed architecture for easy scaling.

It is already used by dozens of startups and enterprises such as Jive Software, Mediafly, Pristine.io, Narrative Clip, Platzi, Workshape.io, CMUNE and NodeCraft for real‑time web, mobile, cloud connectivity and large‑scale multiplayer games.

RethinkDB remains an open‑source, venture‑backed project with a core team of 15 full‑time engineers, over 100 global contributors and a community of more than 100,000 developers.

The release also introduces commercial enterprise services, with core engineers available to assist customers in deploying RethinkDB 2.0 in production.

Key new features compared with the previous 1.16 release include changefeeds on get_all and union commands, optional EventMachine integration for the Ruby driver, optional Tornado integration for the Python driver, and a non‑blocking cursor API that can fetch the next element without waiting.

Interested users can download RethinkDB 2.0 from the official site, follow a ten‑minute guide to get started, and join the community via GitHub, Google Groups or Freenode.

Additional resources such as the official announcement video, candidate release notes, download page and GitHub repository are linked in the original post.