That's a long time ago. I've been working on my own open source project for 2 and a half years. It's good too know that these kinds of projects take a while to gain traction.<p>I first heard about RethinkDB in 2015. I gave it a really thorough tryout and I liked it.<p>It's the first database that makes NoSQL worthwhile for me - I love how easy it is to configure and scale.
Also the query language is really clean and simple - You can learn it as you go along (unlike SQL, you don't have to know it all up-front in order to use it efficiently).
I'm genuinely confused: how can you develop a new database without a technical co-founder? I mean they clearly pulled it off but how did they even start?
So did they pick anyone? This article from almost 1 year later only lists two founders (both from Stony Brook) so it seems like they didn't... <a href="http://primary.slate.com/articles/business/small_business/2010/08/but_he_looked_good_on_paper.html" rel="nofollow">http://primary.slate.com/articles/business/small_business/20...</a>
Interesting way to find talent. To answer their interview test, the answer is: "It depends on that the key size is on each 'page' of the bayer tree".