Great work! One question: is there any manual that explains the implementation details of the internals? Some manual similar to those Oracle, MySQL, Postgres, etc. provide?
The only docs I found in the company website that goes deep into the internals are Advanced FAQ (http://www.rethinkdb.com/docs/advanced-faq/). It is more of an architecture view, though.
The reason I ask is that with a good understanding on the internals, the engineers who understand database internals and distributed systems will have an "more" accurate idea on the capabilities and the limits of the features. Thus, if they decide to adopt RethinkDB, the understanding will help them design their applications to take advantages of the benefits and avoid the potential issues (or surprises!). MongoDB was not very good at documentation. It claims this or that feature works smoothly. Then, people found out many potential issues and limitations. That is one reason it leaves a bad tastes to many engineers.
There currently isn't, beyond the advanced FAQ. This isn't by design -- writing really good detailed architecture papers takes a lot of time, and we were 100% focused on getting the product out. We'll get much better at documenting the internals, but it will take some time.
The only docs I found in the company website that goes deep into the internals are Advanced FAQ (http://www.rethinkdb.com/docs/advanced-faq/). It is more of an architecture view, though.
The reason I ask is that with a good understanding on the internals, the engineers who understand database internals and distributed systems will have an "more" accurate idea on the capabilities and the limits of the features. Thus, if they decide to adopt RethinkDB, the understanding will help them design their applications to take advantages of the benefits and avoid the potential issues (or surprises!). MongoDB was not very good at documentation. It claims this or that feature works smoothly. Then, people found out many potential issues and limitations. That is one reason it leaves a bad tastes to many engineers.