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Mike @ RethinkDB here-- the document model is similar to MongoDB in that you store JSON documents, and there are no schemas, so it's not a relational database.

Our query language (ReQL) does support a lot of SQL-like queries, such as group-by and JOINs, but there are no relations defined.

It's also worth noting that a great team has sprung up to build a C# / .NET driver for RethinkDB (https://github.com/mfenniak/rethinkdb-net).

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Interesting will have to have a look.

I built a tool to track rankings for part of Reed Elsevier and I used mogodb but in a hybrid form using mysql db for the fixed stuff and mongodb for the representation of the first 120 results for a given language,engine,locale tripple

Hi Mike!

That's good to know, I'd like to give it a try, but only OS X and Linux seems to be supported.

That's right-- an enterprising soul is working on porting us to FreeBSD (https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/pull/688), but we are notably missing Windows support-- we hope to get to it after adding some more core features (secondary indexes, etc.)

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