When you work with dynamically typed languages, the typeless nature of RethinkDB is awesome. MongoDB follows the same design. Functionally, to me, RethinkDB wa

When you work with dynamically typed languages, the typeless nature of RethinkDB is awesome. MongoDB follows the same design. Functionally, to me, RethinkDB was perfect. ReQL is one of the best query languages ever - It's so easy to learn and remember. I haven't operated RethinkDB at scale in production (so I can't say much about performance) but I was pretty impressed with its scalability features during testing. I'm really more leaning towards the idea that this is purely a monetization failure. They've been going at it for 7 years - There must be a good reason why investors kept it going for so long - I think it's because of the product. I think they did identify a good monetization strategy in the end but maybe it was too late - They dug themselves into a niche that had great long term growth potential but they didn't have the resources to wait it out any longer.