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Can someone who ditched MongoDB for RethinkDB share his/her experiences?

I did a small project so maybe someone that did something larger can weigh in, but I worked with RethinkDB back in the 1.4 era, so a bit has changed, but the biggest difference IMO is that you have to be prepared to fall back to the RQL syntax to do queries more complex than simple get etc. vs. in Mongo everything was in JSON, and when I was using Mogno you couldn't join tables at all, don't know if that's changed and here you can. Otherwise it is pretty similar, since I didn't do any clustering.

Here's a good explanation for why you want to fall back to ReQL rather than write queries in JSON directly: http://rethinkdb.com/docs/introduction-to-reql/

ReQL for the win. It's so expressive, it's composable, I love it.

I feel more confident that the m will be easy to scale if/when my app needs it.

My code that interacts with the API feels cleaner.

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