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RethinkDB vs rqlite: What are the differences?
What is RethinkDB? 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.
What is rqlite? The lightweight, distributed relational database built on SQLite. rqlite is a distributed relational database, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. rqlite uses Raft to achieve consensus across all the instances of the SQLite databases, ensuring that every change made to the system is made to a quorum of SQLite databases, or none at all.
RethinkDB and rqlite can be primarily classified as "Databases" tools.
RethinkDB and rqlite are both open source tools. It seems that RethinkDB with 22.4K GitHub stars and 1.74K forks on GitHub has more adoption than rqlite with 4.64K GitHub stars and 259 GitHub forks.
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
Pros of rqlite
- So easy1