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CrateIO vs RethinkDB: What are the differences?
Developers describe CrateIO as "The Distributed Database for Docker". Crate is a distributed data store. Simply install Crate directly on your application servers and make the big centralized database a thing of the past. Crate takes care of synchronization, sharding, scaling, and replication even for mammoth data sets. On the other hand, RethinkDB is detailed as "JSON. Scales to multiple machines with very little effort. Open source". RethinkDB is built to store JSON documents, and scale to multiple machines with very little effort. It has a pleasant query language that supports really useful queries like table joins and group by, and is easy to setup and learn.
CrateIO and RethinkDB belong to "Databases" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by CrateIO are:
- Familiar SQL syntax
- Semi-structured data
- High availability, resiliency, and scalability in a distributed design
On the other hand, RethinkDB provides the following key features:
- JSON data model and immediate consistency.
- Distributed joins, subqueries, aggregation, atomic updates.
- Secondary, compound, and arbitrarily computed indexes.
"Simplicity" is the top reason why over 2 developers like CrateIO, while over 46 developers mention "Powerful query language" as the leading cause for choosing RethinkDB.
CrateIO and RethinkDB are both open source tools. It seems that RethinkDB with 22.4K GitHub stars and 1.74K forks on GitHub has more adoption than CrateIO with 2.49K GitHub stars and 333 GitHub forks.
I’m newbie I was developing a pouchdb and couchdb app cause if the sync. Lots of learning very little code available. I dropped the project cause it consumed my life. Yeats later I’m back into it. I researched other db and came across rethinkdb and mongo for the subscription features. With socketio I should be able to create and similar sync feature. Attempted to use mongo. I attempted to use rethink. Rethink for the win. Super clear l. I had it running in minutes on my local machine and I believe it’s supposed to scale easy. Mongo wasn’t as easy and there free online db is so slow what’s the point. Very easy to find mongo code examples and use rethink code in its place. I wish I went this route years ago. All that corporate google Amazon crap get bent. The reason they have so much power in the world is cause you guys are giving it to them.
Pros of CrateIO
- Simplicity3
- Scale2
- Open source2
Pros of RethinkDB
- Powerful query language48
- Excellent dashboard46
- JSON42
- Distributed database41
- Open source38
- Reactive25
- Atomic updates16
- Joins15
- MVCC concurrency9
- Hadoop-style map/reduce9
- Geospatial support4
- Real-time, open-source, scalable4
- YC Company2
- A NoSQL DB with joins2
- Great Admin UI2
- Changefeeds: no polling needed to get updates2
- Fast, easily scalable, great customer support2
