I've seen a few comments mention RethinkDB ... what are the advantages over MongoDB?
I can read their feature page but as someone who isn't an expert, I'm not sure what's marketing hype and what's genuine advantage.
I can read their feature page but as someone who isn't an expert, I'm not sure what's marketing hype and what's genuine advantage.
Incidentally, http://www.lmfdb.org uses MongoDB (since maybe 2011) pretty heavily, as a result of me convincing them to do so after I read too much about MongoDB back then. It’s been painful for them, but it does still work well...
The mailing list is also nearly dead with only a handful of posts total during 2017: https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!forum/rethinkdb
RethinkDB did a lot of things right from an engineering perspective, but they were too late to market to compete with MonogDB; they burned through their cash, then went out of business, and now the devs work at various other companies (e.g., Stripe). RethinkDB is not a viable choice today.
I personally put enormous effort into trying to use RethinkDB (and Cassandra, and also MongoDB); now I very happily use PostgreSQL. just like I did back in the 1999, and I’m very happy with PostgreSQL.