RethinkDB Database Schema

Database tinode

Table users

Stores user accounts

Fields:

• Id user id, primary key
• CreatedAt timestamp when the user was created
• UpdatedAt timestamp when user metadata was updated
• State account state: normal (ok), suspended, soft-deleted
• StateAt timestamp when the state was last updated or NULL
• Access user's default access level for peer-to-peer topics
• Auth, Anon default permissions for authenticated and anonymous users
• Public application-defined data
• State state of the user: normal, disabled, deleted
• StateAt timestamp when the state was last updated or NULL
• LastSeen timestamp when the user was last online
• UserAgent client User-Agent used when last online
• Tags unique strings for user discovery
• Devices client devices for push notifications
• DeviceId device registration ID
• Platform device platform string (iOS, Android, Web)
• LastSeen last logged in
• Lang device language, ISO code

Indexes:

• Id primary key
• Tags multi-index (indexed array)
• DeletedAt index
• DeviceIds multi-index of push notification tokens

Sample:

{
  "Access": {
    "Anon": 0 ,
    "Auth": 47
  } ,
  "CreatedAt": Mon Jul 24 2017 11:16:38 GMT+00:00 ,
  "State": 0,
  "StateAt": null ,
  "Devices": null ,
  "Id": "7yUCHniegrM" ,
  "LastSeen": Mon Jan 01 1 00:00:00 GMT+00:00 ,
  "Public": {
    "fn": "Alice Johnson" ,
    "photo": {
      "data": <binary, 6.5KB, "ff d8 ff e0 00 10..."> ,
      "type": "jpg"
    }
  } ,
  "State": 1 ,
  "Tags": [
    "email:[email protected]" ,
    "tel:17025550001"
  ] ,
  "UpdatedAt": Mon Jul 24 2017 11:16:38 GMT+00:00 ,
  "UserAgent": "TinodeWeb/0.13 (MacIntel) tinodejs/0.13"
}

Table auth

Stores authentication secrets

Fields:

• userid ID of the user who owns the record
• unique unique string which identifies this record, primary key; defined as "authentication scheme':'some unique value per scheme"
• secret shared secret, for instance bcrypt of password
• authLvl authentication level
• expires timestamp when the records expires

Indexes:

• unique primary key
• userid index

Sample:

{
   "authLvl": 20 ,
   "expires": Mon Jan 01 1 00:00:00 GMT+00:00 ,
   "secret": <binary, 60 bytes, "24 32 61 24 31 30..."> ,
   "unique": "basic:alice" ,
   "userid": "7yUCHniegrM"
}

Table topics

The table stores topics.

Fields:

• Id name of the topic, primary key
• CreatedAt topic creation time
• UpdatedAt timestamp of the last change to topic metadata
• State topic state: normal (ok), suspended, soft-deleted
• StateAt timestamp when the state was last updated or NULL
• Access stores topic's default access permissions
• Auth, Anon permissions for authenticated and anonymous users respectively
• Owner ID of the user who owns the topic
• Public application-defined data
• State state of the topic: normal, disabled, deleted
• SeqId sequential ID of the last message
• DelId topic-sequential ID of the deletion operation
• UseBt indicator that channel functionality is enabled in the topic

Indexes:

• Id primary key
• Owner index

Sample:

{
 "Access": {
  "Anon": 64 ,
  "Auth": 64
 } ,
 "DelId": 0,
 "CreatedAt": Thu Oct 15 2015 04:06:51 GMT+00:00 ,
 "State": 0 ,
 "StateAt": null ,
 "LastMessageAt": Sat Oct 17 2015 13:51:56 GMT+00:00 ,
 "Id":  "p2pavVGHLCBbKrvJQIeeJ6Csw" ,
 "Owner": "v2JyG4OLSoA" ,
 "Public": {
   "fn":  "Travel, travel, travel" ,
   "photo": {
     "data": <binary, 6.2KB, "ff d8 ff e0 00 10..."> ,
     "type":  "jpg"
   }
 } ,
 "SeqId": 14,
 "State": 0 ,
 "UpdatedAt": Thu Oct 15 2015 04:06:51 GMT+00:00 ,
 "UseBt": false
}

Table subscriptions

The table stores relationships between users and topics.

Fields:

• Id used for object retrieval
• CreatedAt timestamp when the subscription was created
• UpdatedAt timestamp when the subscription was updated
• DeletedAt timestamp when the subscription was deleted
• ReadSeqId id of the message last read by the user
• RecvSeqId id of the message last received by any user device
• DelId topic-sequential ID of the soft-deletion operation
• Topic name of the topic subscribed to
• User subscriber's user ID
• ModeWant access mode that user wants when accessing the topic
• ModeGiven access mode granted to user by the topic
• Private application-defined data, accessible by the user only

Indexes:

• Id primary key composed as "topic name':'user ID"
• User index
• Topic index

Sample:

{
  "ClearId": 0 ,
  "CreatedAt": Tue Jul 25 2017 15:34:39 GMT+00:00 ,
  "DeletedAt": null ,
  "Id": "grpjajVKrHn0PU:v2JyG4OLSoA" ,
  "ModeGiven": 47 ,
  "ModeWant": 47 ,
  "Private": "Kirgudu" ,
  "ReadSeqId": 0 ,
  "RecvSeqId": 0 ,
  "State": 0 ,
  "Topic": "grpjajVKrHn0PU" ,
  "UpdatedAt": Tue Jul 25 2017 15:34:39 GMT+00:00 ,
  "User": "v2JyG4OLSoA"
}

Table messages

The table stores {data} messages

Fields:

• Id currently unused, primary key
• CreatedAt timestamp when the message was created
• UpdatedAt initially equal to CreatedAt, for deleted messages equal to DeletedAt
• DeletedFor array of user IDs which soft-deleted the message
• DelId topic-sequential ID of the soft-deletion operation
• User ID of the user who soft-deleted the message
• From ID of the user who generated this message
• Topic which received this message
• SeqId messages ID - sequential number of the message in the topic
• Head message headers
• Attachments denormalized IDs of files attached to the message
• Content application-defined message payload

Indexes:

• Id primary key
• Topic_SeqId compound index ["Topic", "SeqId"]
• Topic_DelId compound index ["Topic", "DelId"]
• Topic_DeletedFor compound multi-index ["Topic", "DeletedFor"("User"), "DeletedFor"("DelId")]

Sample:

{
  "Content": {
    "fmt": [
      {
        "len": 6 ,
        "tp":  "ST"
      }
    ] ,
    "txt":  "Hello!"
  } ,
  "CreatedAt": Sun Dec 24 2017 05:16:23 GMT+00:00 ,
  "From":  "wTI0jO9rEqY" ,
  "Head": {
    "mime":  "text/x-drafty"
  } ,
  "DeletedFor": [
    {
      "DelId": 1 ,
      "User":  "wTI0jO9rEqY"
    }
  ] ,
  "Id":  "LLXKEe9W4Bs" ,
  "SeqId": 3 ,
  "Topic":  "p2pJhbJnya8z5PBMjSM72sSpg" ,
  "UpdatedAt": Sun Dec 24 2017 05:16:23 GMT+00:00
}

Table dellog

The table stores records of message deletions

Fields:

• Id currently unused, primary key
• CreatedAt timestamp when the record was created
• UpdatedAt timestamp equal to CreatedAt
• DelId topic-sequential ID of the deletion operation.
• DeletedFor ID of the user for soft-deletions, blank string for hard-deletions
• Topic affected topic
• SeqIdRanges array of ranges of deleted message IDs (see messages.SeqId)

Indexes:

• Id primary key
• Topic_DelId compound index ["Topic", "DelId"]

Sample:

{
  "Id":  "9LfrjW349Rc",
  "CreatedAt": Tue Dec 05 2017 01:51:38 GMT+00:00,
  "DelId": 18,
  "DeletedFor": "xY-YHx09-WI" ,

  "SeqIdRanges": [
    {
      "Low": 20,
      "Hi": 25,
    }
  ] ,
  "Topic":  "grpGx7fpjQwVC0" ,
  "UpdatedAt": Tue Dec 05 2017 01:51:38 GMT+00:00
}

Table credentials

The tables stores user credentials used for validation.

• Id credential, primary key
• CreatedAt timestamp when the record was created
• UpdatedAt timestamp when the last validation attempt was performed (successful or not).
• Method validation method
• Done indicator if the credential is validated
• Resp expected validation response
• Retries number of failed attempts at validation
• User id of the user who owns this credential
• Value value of the credential
• Closed unvalidated credential is no longer being validated. Only one credential is not Closed for each user/method.

Indexes:

• Id Primary key composed either as User:Method:Value for unconfirmed credentials or as Method:Value for confirmed.
• User Index

Sample:

{
  "Id": "tel:+17025550001",
  "CreatedAt": Sun Jun 10 2018 16:37:27 GMT+00:00 ,
  "UpdatedAt": Sun Jun 10 2018 16:37:28 GMT+00:00 ,
  "Method":  "tel" ,
  "Done": true ,
  "Resp":  "123456" ,
  "Retries": 0 ,
  "User":  "k3srBRk9RYw" ,
  "Value":  "+17025550001"
}

Table fileuploads

The table stores records of uploaded files. The files themselves are stored outside of the database.

• Id unique user-visible file name, primary key
• CreatedAt timestamp when the record was created
• UpdatedAt timestamp of when th upload has cmpleted or failed
• User id of the user who uploaded this file.
• Location actual location of the file on the server.
• MimeType file content type as a Mime string.
• Size size of the file in bytes. Could be 0 if upload has not completed yet.
• UseCount count of messages referencing this file.
• Status upload status: 0 pending, 1 completed, -1 failed.

Indexes:

• Id primary key
• UseCount index

Sample:

{
  "CreatedAt": Sun Jun 10 2018 16:38:45 GMT+00:00 ,
  "Id": "sFmjlQ_kA6A" ,
  "Location": "uploads/sFmjlQ_kA6A" ,
  "MimeType": "image/jpeg" ,
  "Size": 54961090 ,
  "UseCount": 3,
  "Status": 1,
  "UpdatedAt": Sun Jun 10 2018 16:38:45 GMT+00:00 ,
  "User": "7j-RR1V7O3Y"
}