The initial announcement shows typical use cases: http://stephane.godbillon.com/2012/08/30/reactivemongo-for-scala-unleashing-mongodb-streaming-capabilities-for

The initial announcement shows typical use cases: http://stephane.godbillon.com/2012/08/30/reactivemongo-for-scala-unleashing-mongodb-streaming-capabilities-for-realtime-web http://stephane.godbillon.com/2012/08/30/reactivemongo-for-s... ReactiveMongo is a pure non-blocking Scala driver for MongoDB. But more than that, it enables you to consume data from MongoDB in a reactive way. For example you can stream documents from and into MongoDB, without blocking at all, without filling up the memory. Here are some good examples: https://github.com/sgodbillon/reactivemongo-demo-app https://github.com/sgodbillon/reactivemongo-demo-app (A complete app with CRUD and GridFS) https://github.com/sgodbillon/reactivemongo-tailablecursor-demo https://github.com/sgodbillon/reactivemongo-tailablecursor-d... (a simple app streaming documents from a capped collection through websockets)