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Dev tools · April 29, 2015

RethinkDB

RethinkDB pushes JSON to your apps in realtime.

RethinkDB launched on April 29, 2015 with 2 votes. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.

What it does

When your app polls for data, it becomes slow, unscalable, and cumbersome to maintain. RethinkDB is the open-source, scalable database that makes building realtime apps dramatically easier. Web apps like Google Docs , Trello , and Quora pioneered the realtime experience on the web. With RethinkDB, you can build amazing realtime apps with dramatically less engineering effort. When a player takes an action in a multiplayer game, every other player in the game needs to see the change in realtime. RethinkDB dramatically simplifies the data infrastructure for low latency, high throughput realtime interactions. RethinkDB dramatically reduces the complexity of building realtime trading and…from rethinkdb.com

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