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Re:RethinkDB Postmortem by dkersten on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @06:39AM (#13425657)
RethinkDB themselves pivoted away from this

I believe the storage backend remained largely the same (ie current RethinkDB, IIRC, is still optimised for SSD). Maybe I'm mistaken.

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Re:RethinkDB Postmortem by SamReidHughes on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @11:06AM (#13427332)
It's the same storage backend (well, modified quite a bit) and optimizing for SSD's isn't really the goal anymore, especially since things are now stored in a file and not the whole block device, and O_DIRECT is turned off.
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