There are plenty of data explorers for other databases, especially SQL DBs. I don't think it being built into the DB should be a make-it-or-break-it feature. I

There are plenty of data explorers for other databases, especially SQL DBs. I don't think it being built into the DB should be a make-it-or-break-it feature. I used RethinkDB back in the days because it was the first DB that had pretty good replication and sharding - it was zero effort. I felt the functional programming model to be strange, some stuff got executed locally, other parts remotely and it was not very straight forward when things didn't go as planned. By the time the RethinkDB company folded, CockroachDB emerged and has been my go-to distributed DB since.