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What i mean, every node is the same, no mongos , you just connect to one random mongod and it handles the mongos funcionality.

So if you grow, you add 1 node, not a replica-set(that could be 3 nodes if you have 3x replication)

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Unfortunately, this would break compatibility with existing MongoDB applications more than we would probably be willing to do. However, there's no reason RethinkDB couldn't use Fractal Tree indexing instead of B-trees, given some engineering effort.

but rethinkdb doesn't have range-sharding (they had it but they are/did change it to random(id), also no sharding(custom_field))

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