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24 alternatives to RethinkDB 2.0

Open source, production-ready database for the realtime web.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. RethinkDB 2.0 launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   The Changelog - #181: RethinkDB, Databases, and the Realtime Web With Slava Akhmechet▲60

   Slava Akhmechet schools us on RethinkDB and the realtime web

   2015 · its alternatives →

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   InstantDB – A Modern Firebase▲1,145

   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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   Fieldbook: Lightweight Database with a Spreadsheet UI and a REST API▲335

   2015 · fieldbook.com · its alternatives →

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   Airtable, a real-time spreadsheet-database hybrid▲361

   2014 · airtable.com · its alternatives →

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   Orchestrate▲120

   Making databases simple again

   2014 · its alternatives →

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   Rxdb – A fast, reactive, client-side database▲52

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

7. 7WM
   We made a real-time editor for web database apps▲121

   2018 · demo.hyperfiddle.net · its alternatives →

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   Horizon▲8

   Realtime open-source backend for JS apps by RethinkDB

   2016 · its alternatives →

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   PipelineDB▲62

   Realtime analytics database

   2014 · its alternatives →

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    ArangoDB – A distributed open-source multi-model NoSQL DB▲35

    2014 · arangodb.com · its alternatives →

11. 11PA
    Pydb – a lightweight database with Python syntax queries, using ZeroMQ▲130

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

12. 12TA
    TheBigDB - A simpler open database of facts▲133

    2013 · thebigdb.com · its alternatives →

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    ZeroDB▲119

    An open-source, end-to-end encrypted database protocol

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    FaunaDB, a strongly consistent, globally distributed cloud database▲131

    2017 · fauna.com · its alternatives →

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    GrapheneDB▲121

    Graph databases as-a-service

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    RethinkDB▲2

    RethinkDB pushes JSON to your apps in realtime.

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    IronDB – a resilient key-value store for the browser▲73

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

18. 18SI
    SummitDB – In-Memory NoSQL DB▲81

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    EnnoDB, a simple NoSQL database▲14

    2015 · twigtechnology.com · its alternatives →

20. 20OO
    OmniDB – Open Source Web Tool for Database Management and Conversion▲10

    2016 · omnidb.com.br · its alternatives →

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    Mongoku, a Web-Scale GUI for MongoDB▲18

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

22. 22SI
    Scaphold.io – A full GraphQL back end in under 5 minutes▲61

    2016 · scaphold.io · its alternatives →

23. 23AA
    ABCWeb – A Go Web Framework▲50

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

24. 24SA
    Sondra – A Different ORM and REST Framework for Flask and RethinkDB▲21

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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