RethinkDB vs IndexedDB: What are the differences?
Developers describe RethinkDB 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. On the other hand, IndexedDB is detailed as "A low-level API for client-side storage of significant amounts of structured data". This API uses indexes to enable high-performance searches of this data. While Web Storage is useful for storing smaller amounts of data, it is less useful for storing larger amounts of structured data.
RethinkDB and IndexedDB belong to "Databases" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by RethinkDB are:
- JSON data model and immediate consistency.
- Distributed joins, subqueries, aggregation, atomic updates.
- Secondary, compound, and arbitrarily computed indexes.
On the other hand, IndexedDB provides the following key features:
- Stores key-pair values
- It is not a relational database
- IndexedDB API is mostly asynchronous
RethinkDB is an open source tool with 22.7K GitHub stars and 1.76K GitHub forks. Here's a link to RethinkDB's open source repository on GitHub.