I mean, the core had 3 commits just last month. Some of the client libraries are much more active: https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb-python/commits/master

I mean, the core had 3 commits just last month. Some of the client libraries are much more active: https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb-python/commits/master https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb-python/commits/master https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb-rs/commits/next https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb-rs/commits/next Sure, that's not a ton of development, but at least it's actually, really, open source. In addition, the software itself doesn't really need much improvement. It does what it's supposed to do very well and the client libraries are fantastic.