Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to RethinkDB
RethinkDB pushes JSON to your apps in realtime.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. RethinkDB launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hey there HN! We’re Joe and Stopa, and today we’re open sourcing InstantDB, a client-side database that makes it easy to build real-time and collaborative apps like Notion and Figma. Building modern apps these days involves a lot of schleps. For a basic CRUD app you need to spin up servers, wire up endpoints, integrate auth, add permissions, and then marshal data from the backend to the frontend and back again. If you want to deliver a buttery smooth user experience, you’ll need to add optimistic updates and rollbacks. We do these steps over and over for every feature we build, which can…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Slava Akhmechet schools us on RethinkDB and the realtime web
2015 · its alternatives →
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InstantDB▲329Complete backend with auth and storage in one prompt
Apr 2026 · instantdb.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I’ve written a bunch of WebSocket servers over the years to do simple things like state synchronization, WebRTC signaling, and notifying a client when a backend job was run. I realized that if I had a simple way to create a private, temporary, mini-redis that the client could talk to directly, it would save a lot of time. So we created DriftDB. In addition to the open source server that you can run yourself, we also provide https://jamsocket.live where you can use an instance we host on Cloudflare’s edge (~13ms round trip latency from my home in NY). You may have seen my…
2023 · driftdb.com · its alternatives →
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Simple online database service in the cloud with NoSQL, REST API, low code javascript hooks, MongoDB support and more. Perfect for API automation, custom development, enterprise, backoffice, serverless backends, database driven websites. It provides easy collaboration and data management with secure
2016 · restdb.io · its alternatives →
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2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A bunch of developers and myself have created RepliByte - an open-source tool to seed a development database from a production database. Features: - Support data backup and restore for PostgreSQL, MySQL and MongoDB - Replace sensitive data with fake data - Works on large database (> 10GB) (read Design) - Database Subsetting: Scale down a production database to a more reasonable size - Start a local database with the prod data in a single command - On-the-fly data (de)compression (Zlib) - On-the-fly data de/encryption (AES-256) - Fully stateless (no server, no daemon) and lightweight…
2022 · its alternatives →
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2018 · demo.hyperfiddle.net · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, We've been experimenting with a real-time, version-controlled NoDB for Deno & React called GoatDB. The idea is to remove backend complexity while keeping apps fast, offline-resilient, and easy to self-host. Runs on the client – No backend required, incremental queries keep things efficient. Self-hosted & lightweight – Deploy a single executable, no server stack needed. Offline-first & resilient – Clients work independently & can restore state after server outages. Edge-native & fast – Real-time sync happens locally with minimal overhead. Why We Built It: We needed something that’s…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Yehuda's start as a programmer and the spec for building API
2016 · its alternatives →
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2012 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2012 · getfwd.com · its alternatives →
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2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi all, I built this tool when I needed a simple LocalStorage-esque database for a client project, and figured others might want something similar. Basically turns your JSON into a query-able, hosted database in seconds. You can read/update/delete JSON files by path, just like you would in Javascript. So, something like get(”users[7].address”) And while we’re at it, I also built a simple file storage service where you upload a file and it gives you the URL back. A lot of my (and other devs friends') side projects will never require more data than a JSON file can handle. Yet we…
2023 · daba.so · its alternatives →
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