> Early in the development of RethinkDB, we made the design decision to be extremely conservative about durability and safety of users's data. I'm glad that th

> Early in the development of RethinkDB, we made the design decision to be extremely conservative about durability and safety of users's data. I'm glad that the Rethink engineers are taking this approach to development instead of "let's win all the benchmarks!" Overall, it's apparent that they are really thinking through the consequences of their decisions and the tradeoffs in database systems, and that they want to build something that will last instead of something that will just become popular in the short term.