I don't have much to add, but as someone who has a lot of projects dependent on RethinkDB and also loves using it:

Thank you to everyone involved!

Do you/would you use for anything other than something that needs live updates ASAP?

Yes, I use it in my upcoming project, which is just a regular, (no real-time sensitive) webapp and RDB is perfectly usable as a regular NoSQL database.

I really like the fact that you query the database by calling methods on an object rather than passing strings to it, feels more like actual programming and protects you from injection attacks.

The WebUI and easy scalability are great features as well.

It and CockroachDB, (for more traditional SQL, same scaleability benefits), are the databases I am most excited about, but I seem to prefer ReQL to SQL despite being vastly more familiar with SQL :-)

Absolutely. Rethink's core value props to me are:

Strong promises about consistency Nosql with joins Atomic changefeeds (real time) A great functional query language (reql) Great admin UI Simple auto sharding that actually works

We use changefeeds but just to update Elasicsearch. The key value offer is the very powerful query language which feels right at home in Node, strong robustness, and real proper join support with NoSQL.

Mike and Slava, you guys are so great! You've worked overtime to secure social confidence in RethinkDB for others when the engineering talent alone was good enough. You guys are so admirable and hard workers and such a good role model to others.

Thanks Mark, I appreciate the kind words.

I haven't used ReThinkDB yet, but I know that projects I have or will rely on do. Therefore, I donated and I encourage you to do the same! It helps that I met Slava at a bar in Mountain View once and he was really nice to me =)

I also donated... I haven't been able to use it in a workplace project (yet), but have to say following several of the issues/resolutions, it would be my first choice today for most scenarios.