Thinker – Easily clone and sync RethinkDB databases
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Edit: I'd also like to read why/when `thinker sync` should be used over utilizing RethinkDB's built-in table replication functionality.
One more thing that you might want to clarify: you gave a metric for the time it takes to sync to your local database over the internet. I think it would be a good idea to indicate the connection bandwidth and the amount of data which was actually saved from being transferred (perhaps only in number or percentage of records) as well as post the full time of a regular clone as a base metric.
Agreed, I work with a very small company. But it's still useful for moving even test data around. All you need is a source DB and a target.
> connection bandwidth
That gets more complicated...The rated bandwidth is 100mb, the most I've ever pulled from the DB over the VPN was ~25mb.
> amount of data which was actually saved from being transferred
That is mostly a function of how much data was changed since last sync. The hashes themselves are very small, even if you let RethinkDB generate all your id's. It only takes 13MB of bandwidth to download all the hashes for a table of ~210000 records.