News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on RethinkDB Postmortem.

Re:RethinkDB Postmortem by jldork on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @10:37AM (#13427040)
Yeah, my perspective is that Mongo just positioned themselves well in their marketing. They became a default option as part of the MEAN stack.

I wonder if Rethink somehow piggybacked on React or Angular in the same way...

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:RethinkDB Postmortem by amalag on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @10:41AM (#13427080)
A part of their success was timing. When they came out I didnt know of anything else that could allow you to store JSON objects and do queries on them. Just that ability was a big deal. I believe the mainstream alternatives was to serialize your JSON object and store it in a text field.
[ Parent | on HN ]