RethinkDB would benefit from corporate backing but it needs to be the right sort. I was deeply involved in the MySQL community for a number of years. Both Fac

RethinkDB would benefit from corporate backing but it needs to be the right sort. I was deeply involved in the MySQL community for a number of years. Both Facebook and Google made significant contributions to the codebase over a number of years and Facebook also funded other open source efforts around MySQL. For instance a lot of the "vested interest" in improving MySQL performance has come from great engineers like Mark Callaghan and Domas Mituzas (hi Domas!) having jobs that paid them to help run MySQL at a grand scale at Facebook.