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RethinkDB vs RxDB: 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 RxDB? A fast, reactive, client-side database. 💻 📱 Reactive, serverless, client-side, offline-first database in javascript. Client-Side Database for Browsers, NodeJS, electron, cordova, react-native and every other javascript-runtime.

RethinkDB and RxDB belong to "Databases" category of the tech stack.

RethinkDB and RxDB are both open source tools. It seems that RethinkDB with 22.4K GitHub stars and 1.74K forks on GitHub has more adoption than RxDB with 9.39K GitHub stars and 435 GitHub forks.

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Pros of RethinkDB
Pros of RxDB
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    Powerful query language
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    Excellent dashboard
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    JSON
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    Distributed database
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    Open source
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    Reactive
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    Atomic updates
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    Joins
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    MVCC concurrency
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    Hadoop-style map/reduce
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    Geospatial support
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    Real-time, open-source, scalable
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    YC Company
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    A NoSQL DB with joins
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    Great Admin UI
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    Changefeeds: no polling needed to get updates
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    Fast, easily scalable, great customer support
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    Good documentation
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    Subscription to queries
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    Example projects
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    Typescript support
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    Works
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    Offline first
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    Plugins

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Cons of RethinkDB
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      Bulk operation for updates and other operation

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    What is RethinkDB?

    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 RxDB?

    💻 📱 Reactive, serverless, client-side, offline-first database in javascript. Client-Side Database for Browsers, NodeJS, electron, cordova, react-native and every other javascript-runtime.

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    What are some alternatives to RethinkDB and RxDB?
    MongoDB
    MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.
    CouchDB
    Apache CouchDB is a database that uses JSON for documents, JavaScript for MapReduce indexes, and regular HTTP for its API. CouchDB is a database that completely embraces the web. Store your data with JSON documents. Access your documents and query your indexes with your web browser, via HTTP. Index, combine, and transform your documents with JavaScript.
    CockroachDB
    CockroachDB is distributed SQL database that can be deployed in serverless, dedicated, or on-prem. Elastic scale, multi-active availability for resilience, and low latency performance.
    Couchbase
    Developed as an alternative to traditionally inflexible SQL databases, the Couchbase NoSQL database is built on an open source foundation and architected to help developers solve real-world problems and meet high scalability demands.
    Firebase
    Firebase is a cloud service designed to power real-time, collaborative applications. Simply add the Firebase library to your application to gain access to a shared data structure; any changes you make to that data are automatically synchronized with the Firebase cloud and with other clients within milliseconds.
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