ReChat

RethinkDB + Tornado Chat Demo

Using Async RethinDB Driver , with change feeds and Longpolling. Change feeds makes

How it works

• When new chat message arrived it is inserted into events table RethinkDB automatically notify to the changfeed listeners.
• It makes massaging persistant and scalable.
• No need to track previous messages cursors thanks to changefeeds.
• Better maintainability vs combo of Queues and Database architectures.

Tested with rethinkdb 2.0RC1 and tornado 4.1.0 . Also included python rethinkdb drivers from latest commit for easy testing.

#Setup

easy_install install tornado==4.1.0
#Or 
pip install tornado==4.1.0

#Running

python rechat.py