我们很高兴的宣布 RethinkDB 1.8 发布了，现在下载
该版本包含如下特性和改进：
- ReQL improvements
- Dates and times are natively supported, and there are over 20 new commands for creating, manipulating, and querying them.
- Nested documents are easier to work with in
updateandmerge. (We also extended support forpluck's nested document syntax towithout,group_by,with_fields, andhas_fields.)
- Server improvements
- Server uses 8x less disk space.
- Tables support efficient ordering by primary or secondary indexes.
- Javascript evaluation is more efficient and reliable.
- Cross-network cluster operation is much easier.
完整改进包括修复 超过90个 bug、功能和增强。
RethinkDB 设计用来存储 JSON 文档的分布式数据库，可通过简单操作实现多机分布式存储。支持表的联合和分组查询。
有空把php和erlang补上.