[rer]

I wish RethinkDB had published a performance benchmark against Hadoop. It'd be enough to show the world how ahead of its times RethinkDB is.

I also wish I knew what RethinkDB's investors are thinking.

[lobster_johnson]

By Hadoop, do you mean HBase? Something else? I'm not sure how much overlap there is. Rethink is geared towards ad-hoc OLTP-type patterns (albeit with a document-like data model), whereas Hadoop is oriented around batch/stream processing. A better comparison would be CouchDB or MongoDB.