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RethinkDB fits into the category of products i love but do not use because i do not want to manage the underlying servers. I've moved to Firebase and other 'services' on the Google, AWS clouds.

Given that this is the way many of us are operating (i.e. 'moving to the cloud'), i wonder what the state of open source software is going to be in the coming years ...

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Actually I did the opposite, since Firebase comes with a huge vendor lock-in. For smaller projects Firebase however may be a good fit, the Flame plan provides good value for 25 bucks a month. If your product needs scale up to the Blaze plan you are probably screwed...

I'd like to caution you about doing this. Look at Parse. Not owning the "underlying servers" your product runs on is a liability, not a benefit.

We did weigh the options for/against but went with Firebase because they got acquired by Google and the Founders (and Google) made public promises not to shut it down.

Again, we don't rely entirely on Firebase. There is always another database (like AWS Dynamodb or Google Cloud Datastore) in the picture ... but again all hosted in the cloud ... not much servers to manage for my team.

If Google and AWS shut down ... thats when the fit shits the fan :)

> If Google and AWS shut down

I would be more concerned about what happens if your account on Google or AWS is shut down - much more likely, and less notice if it were to occur.

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