Slava @ RethinkDB here.<p>We&#x27;re working hard on fixing every bug and performance issue in the system, so the explanation below isn&#x27;t meant to shirk responsibility. That being said...<p>Every large system (including the Linux kernel, MySQL, Postgres, etc.) has a large number of bugs lurking under the hood. These bugs are often edge case scenarios that are specific to a given workload, hardware&#x2F;software configuration, or some other aspects of a given user&#x27;s system. I&#x27;d be careful about looking at the tracker and drawing conclusions -- in my experience bugs like these aren&#x27;t representative of the overall experience of using the product. (That&#x27;s not to say that RethinkDB is as stable the Linux kernel, I&#x27;m just using that to illustrate that bugs are unavoidable and don&#x27;t necessarily color the experience of the average user).<p>Again I wanted to give a different perspective from the POV of a maintain of a large project. We&#x27;re always working on fixing all important issues that prevent people from using Rethink, so I don&#x27;t mean to imply in any way that we aren&#x27;t responsible for these.