What do you like best about the product?

My favourite features of RethinkDB are the team behind it, the real time features, and the query language.

The RethinkDB team are the nicest group I have ever worked with in open source. They are patient, responsive, kind, and friendly. When reporting bugs and writing patches they are great to work with.

The real time queries are a breakthrough, and make writing real-time apps much easier than before.

I also really like the query language. It is a functional query language which works well with the functional programming language we are using to talk to RethinkDB (Clojure).

What do you dislike about the product?

I don't really have any dislikes of RethinkDB. It is a document database, so you don't have SQL features like multi document transactions and schemas, but you would get that with any database.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

The realtime queries are the biggest win for us. They let us get realtime updates into our web application with minimal effort.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

If you need a document database, I would seriously look at RethinkDB.