Yes, I use it in my upcoming project, which is just a regular, (no real-time sensitive) webapp and RDB is perfectly usable as a regular NoSQL database.

I really like the fact that you query the database by calling methods on an object rather than passing strings to it, feels more like actual programming and protects you from injection attacks.

The WebUI and easy scalability are great features as well.

It and CockroachDB, (for more traditional SQL, same scaleability benefits), are the databases I am most excited about, but I seem to prefer ReQL to SQL despite being vastly more familiar with SQL :-)

Absolutely. Rethink's core value props to me are:

Strong promises about consistency Nosql with joins Atomic changefeeds (real time) A great functional query language (reql) Great admin UI Simple auto sharding that actually works

We use changefeeds but just to update Elasicsearch. The key value offer is the very powerful query language which feels right at home in Node, strong robustness, and real proper join support with NoSQL.