Happen to be using the streaming API and I have to say it's fantastic. I hide all my realtime streams behind a "/realtime" endpoint and watching specific table

Happen to be using the streaming API and I have to say it's fantastic. I hide all my realtime streams behind a "/realtime" endpoint and watching specific tables for changes couldn't be easier (just the changes command, which produces an infinite sequence). Generally as simple as: r.db('db').table('table').changes().run(conn) (depending on your language it might look a little different). Then again I'm pretty sold on RethinkDB so my opinion should probably come with a large-ish grain of salt.