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by hardwaresofton 4155 days ago
For one thing, you're not tied to Mongo. Generally more choices is good.

As for real reasons: - ReQL, functional, composable, and declarative, is very nice to use

- Changefeeds

- (v1.16) Arbitrary query watching with changefeeds

- Ease of sharding/load-balancing

- (v1.16) dynamic server management through queries

- Awesome web admin API

- Actually saving stuff to disk (couldn't resist)

This video on the highlights of rethinkdb is old but still relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1422327029&x-yt-cl=848...