slava @ rethink here. This is entirely our fault -- good docs are really hard, and we're working on it now. We should have much more comprehensive documentation up in a few weeks.
This has actually been one of my biggest frustrations -- there is an enormous amount of really cool stuff in Rethink that's relatively poorly documented, so people can't find out about it. I'm really looking forward to fixing this soon.
Hi Slava, this is a bit tangential to the topic at hand -- but I was wondering how RethinkDB plans to support itself...
It looks like an open source project with an enormous amount of amazing talent behind it, and YC backing; but considering that it's FOSS now; how do you plan on generating revenue?
Rethink is a VC funded company. Our goal is to be a defacto database choice for every new web app. This is tongue in cheek -- https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/1000 -- but should give you a sense of the direction for the project.
RethinkDB already has paying customers, and we'll soon be offering publicly available commercial support (not unlike JBoss, MySQL, 10Gen, etc.) There are also other revenue streams I can't talk about yet.
For anyone who's interested in the pilot program before commercial support becomes publicly available, shoot me an email -- slava@rethinkdb.com.
This has actually been one of my biggest frustrations -- there is an enormous amount of really cool stuff in Rethink that's relatively poorly documented, so people can't find out about it. I'm really looking forward to fixing this soon.