Another database, RethinkDB tries to make you rethink using Mongo and others. Will you?

Originally published on Kapuno in the Technology community

🔗 RethinkDB - a distributed document database for scalable web applications (Article)

Here are some benefits & features they tout.

Simple programming model:

   - JSON data model and immediate consistency.

   - Distributed joins, subqueries, aggregation, atomic updates.

   - Hadoop-style map/reduce.

Easy administration:

   - Friendly web and command-line administration tools.

   - Takes care of machine failures and network interrupts.

   - Multi-datacenter replication and failover.

Horizontal scalability:

   - Sharding and replication to multiple nodes.

   - Queries are automatically parallelized and distributed.

   - Lock-free operation via MVCC concurrency.