13 engineers on Hacker News describe using RethinkDB first-hand: 8 endorse it, 3 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“It's our biggest challenge, even though we're on SSDs. Our backfills after outages are especially long and painful.”
regret · production · lucasjans · 2017-11-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I used it in production two years and have expressed that I don't think RethinkDB did exceedingly well at any particular use case”
regret · production · 2 yr · slap_shot · 2017-11-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched recently to RethinkDB for this reason. ... in return we got incredible robustness across three data centers.”
endorse · production · api · 2017-04-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“After two days they simply couldn't get it to run it in a cluster. So for now we switched back to ES for AP stuff and Rethink for CP stuff.”
mixed · production · ralfn · 2016-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“as our project scaled we found 95% of our code had become raw ReQL for atomicity, performance, and relational reasons”
endorse · production · chrisfosterelli · 2016-07-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“ReQL is deceptive. It performs well as long as you don't embed JavaScript or don't do sophisticated joins (even based on indexes).”
regret · production · 2 yr · robert-zaremba · 2015-10-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I love rethink and ReQL and especially the intuitive Python bindings - but I can't wait for geospatial indexing.”
endorse · personal · z3ugma · 2014-08-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using RethinkDB over the last month in a new project.”
endorse · personal · 0.1 yr · deepdiver16 · 2013-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Rethinkdb is a really well-designed system. I've been using it (not in production currently)”
endorse · personal · lincolnq · 2013-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have used rethinkDB in production since may (and obviously in dev - about since v 1.1). It's kick ass.”
endorse · production · 0.5 yr · orkj · 2013-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“As someone who's used it for over 6 months now (4 in production) can't say I've regretted the decision or ever looked back.”
endorse · production · 0.5 yr · orthecreedence · 2013-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using RethinkDB for a couple of weeks now and it's fantastic, the Ruby drivers work great.”
endorse · personal · nogbit · 2013-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Bonus, Gorethink tags [0] and how we use them at Lavaboom [1].”
neutral · production · simi_ · 2015-07-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?