RethinkDB was great. They had better tech than mongodb. It was fast and consistent, rql was expressive and easy to lean. Sharding and replicas was easy.

I wish they didn’t run out of money and give up. In many ways startups feel like you gotta be a cockroach. The goal is to not die and live long enough to be profitable where you control your own destiny.

Like mongo atlas, rethinkdb’s hosted solution (horizon I think) could have easily taken off.

Like Firebase’s Firestore, it could have been quite successful.