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It seems that we can make an API call nonblocking but we'll have to block and wait for such call to complete. How can they mention reactive/event-driven in the middle of the blog and not provide an asynchronous API? Java 8 CompletableFuture would've been the perfect abstraction for it.

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Daniel @ RethinkDB here. We're going to add an asynchronous API soon. We decided to get the synchronous driver out to get some early feedback and because we know that a lot of our users have been waiting for official Java support, and not all of them need an async API.

You might be interested in following this GitHub issue: https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/4802

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