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Re:RethinkDB: why we failed (2017) by nodesocket on Saturday March 13, 2021 @12:43AM (#26444304)
Interesting, RethinkDB was really easy to setup. Three EC2 instances (cluster), install their apt repo, and install. There were a few config options[1], but really minimal and clean.

[1] https://rethinkdb.com/docs/config-file/

Re:RethinkDB: why we failed (2017) by 411111111111111 on Saturday March 13, 2021 @03:10AM (#26444929)
The setup process isn't the reason people want to use hosted services, the maintenance is.
Re:RethinkDB: why we failed (2017) by WrtCdEvrydy on Saturday March 13, 2021 @01:43PM (#26448816)
Yeah, that's what we ran too, but there's a heavy internal push to use managed services.