> The world just isn't willing to wait, and it's not willing to take the time to understand a system and to see how clearly it distinguishes itself from the alt

> The world just isn't willing to wait, and it's not willing to take the time to understand a system and to see how clearly it distinguishes itself from the alternatives. This world is always willing to wait, it was the RethinkDB team and/or their investors who weren't. The world will wait for you in eternity; it's just not willing to provide you with capital during the wait. Your statement makes sense if there were a dozen competitors in the database space. With hundreds of competitors, actually evaluating them all becomes more expensive than just choosing eg. a managed SQL solution and then switching provider if it doesn't live up to its promises. That's so much more flexible from a business perspective than evaluating a hundred different open source database systems, settling on one, and then having to rewrite your database code when the database you've chosen ceases development, and you're left as the maintainer of it.