I also like how almost all of their development process is done completely in the open: https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues
I hope that it ends up as a MongoDB killer within the next few years. They certainly deserve success.
I hope that it ends up as a MongoDB killer within the next few years. They certainly deserve success.
I didn't try some big instalation, and I would expect at least some issues, but generally, so far, sun is shining each time I use RethinkDB
Explicit control over write durability and out-dated reads alone is a pretty big advantage. When you start to factor in how much better ReQL is and the atomic nature of ReQL queries RethinkDB pulls far ahead.