Choice of database

[prats226]

What are your thoughts on choosing rethinkdb as choice of database for this problem?

[bhanuc]

I choose rethinkdb as it is an object based store, where I could store all the model related data directly in the model object itself and being schemaless allowed me to design the schema as I wrote this app in few hours. I didn't choose mongodb because it get's terrible to handle with scale but is slightly easier than rethinkdb. I installed and used rethinkdb for the first time and I think I like it mostly, although it seems it does have some rough edges but it seemed to fit very nicely to our use case.

Rethinkdb also has 1-click solutions for sharding and replication making it easier to scale. So to sumarise:

• Ease of use
• Limited time/knowledge of the product requirements making NoSQL a better choice
• is a good fit to our product requirement
• Has high availability, easy to scale and a good realtime support.