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by bogomipz 3425 days ago
>"Also, rethink supports joins at the server (though best to avoid a lot of the time)."

Does RethinkDB have distributed joins then? These sort of notoriously difficult to implement well no? I see you say its best to avoid. I would curious to hear you experience with them.

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They are difficult, and costly, performance-wise. I wouldnt use them for a large expected result-set... maybe sub-items against a single parent.