Taking quotes on building LC external for RethinkDB

Dan Brown danoldboy at gmail.com
Mon Aug 7 01:31:22 EDT 2017


Rethinkdb doesn't have authentication baked in so you have to lock down the
ports and use an ssh tunnel to access it on a remote server. Firebase and
Parse server (open source) do pub sub and have auth from the get go

On 7 Aug 2017 5:10 am, "Mark Wieder via use-livecode" <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> On 08/06/2017 05:20 PM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote:
>
> If so, do you plan on connecting the DB directly to the open Internet, or
>>> use a middleware supplying a REST API for clients?
>>>
>>> i would presume not. The USP of RethinkDB (at least from my very quick
>> skim over the website :-) was the 'push' notification of updates to the
>> clients - which would be lost if you used a 'traditional' REST API from the
>> end-clients to a server.
>>
>
> Interesting. My take on that is that since it requires an open connection
> to the database in order for the notifications to happen, it's more like a
> pubsub sort of approach. Which is still a nice touch, but it seems like it
> requires either a direct connection to the db or a callback mechanism. And
> that is also from a very quick skim of that section of the docs.
>
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>  Mark Wieder
>  ahsoftware at gmail.com
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