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Galera Cluster vs RethinkDB: What are the differences?
Developers describe Galera Cluster as "A Multi-Master Cluster based on synchronous replication for MySQL". It’s an easy-to-use, high-availability solution, which provides high system up-time, no data loss and scalability for future growth. You can Keep it up and running 24/7. Putting our expertise to use will help you avoid trial and error. 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.
Galera Cluster and RethinkDB belong to "Databases" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Galera Cluster are:
- True Multi-master Read and write to any node at any time
- Synchronous Replication No slave lag, no data is lost at node crash
- Tightly Coupled All nodes hold the same state
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.
Galera Cluster and RethinkDB are both open source tools. It seems that RethinkDB with 22.5K GitHub stars and 1.75K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Galera Cluster with 279 GitHub stars and 118 GitHub forks.
miDrive, Runbook, and Rove.me are some of the popular companies that use RethinkDB, whereas Galera Cluster is used by Broker Genius, Rolosync, and Stockopedia. RethinkDB has a broader approval, being mentioned in 53 company stacks & 166 developers stacks; compared to Galera Cluster, which is listed in 14 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.
Pros of Galera Cluster
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