[b3tta]

Please don't get me wrong, but are there any details as to when RethinkDB will get its old speed back (before the addition of the cluster layer)?

Because currently it seems that even for instance MySQL mostly performs a lot faster than RethinkDB and that makes me kinda sad, because I would really like to try this in a production environment.

[coffeemug]

Yes -- we still have to work out some core features (such as secondary indexes and a few ReQL improvements). After that, it will all be about performance, performance, performance. We'll do a lot of performance optimization most likely in 1.7, which will be around end of June (about the time when Rethink will be labeled ready for production use).

Sorry for the temporary regression -- we promise we'll get the numbers back up!