There are a lot of interesting benchmarks to run - updates, deletes, different concurrent loads, different indexing schemes, a variety of row sizes and variable

There are a lot of interesting benchmarks to run - updates, deletes, different concurrent loads, different indexing schemes, a variety of row sizes and variable column sizes, etc. Right now it's only three of us, and it's only been a little over two months. We're really looking forward to running all of these benchmarks (along with TPC and iiBench), but there is only so much we can do with a limited amount of time. One thing we're finding is that people are skeptical by default. In retrospect, we probably should have expected this given the amount of false advertisement, magic bullets, and vaporware out there. We're not offering magic bullets - we're simply optimizing for modern hardware and modern workloads as opposed to 1970 hardware and database usage patterns. We'll be posting more benchmark results and detailed explanations of how RethinkDB works to win your confidence. We're not trying to trick you. What's the point? Eventually everyone would find out and the house of cards would collapse anyway. We just have only 24 hours in a day (btw, if anyone has a device to solve this problem, we'd love to beta test it!)