It seems that unfortunately RethinkDB the company was architected in such a way that the success of their product, in terms of performance and developer experience, led to a decrease in revenue.
This shutdown therefore goes a long way to say how talented and ethically correct the team was, something extremely evident in how they put correctness and reliability in front of performance.
In short, RethinkDB is a very solid piece of software that does well where (many) other NoSQLs fall short, that is:
* easy HA and automatic failover
* easy auto sharding
* rational query language
* ease of administration and awareness (webUI)
* realtime capabilities
* perform well on the Jepsen test!
Now, what could have they done differently to stay afloat?
What avenues do we have to fund fund such great projects, whose
point is being OSS?
(I mean, one of the selling points of RethinkDB is that one can trust it in this land of NoSQLs that promise but don't deliver, and this is in part thanks to their open development processes)
This shutdown therefore goes a long way to say how talented and ethically correct the team was, something extremely evident in how they put correctness and reliability in front of performance.
In short, RethinkDB is a very solid piece of software that does well where (many) other NoSQLs fall short, that is:
Now, what could have they done differently to stay afloat? What avenues do we have to fund fund such great projects, whose point is being OSS? (I mean, one of the selling points of RethinkDB is that one can trust it in this land of NoSQLs that promise but don't deliver, and this is in part thanks to their open development processes)