RethinkDB

Acquired

The open source database for the realtime web.

What it does

RethinkDB is the first open-source scalable database for the realtime web. It exposes an exciting new access model -- instead of polling for changes, the developer can tell the database to continuously push updated query results to applications in realtime. RethinkDB allows developer to build scalable realtime apps in a fraction of the time with fewer engineering resources. RethinkDB features a pleasant and powerful query language that has useful queries like table joins and groupBy, a highly parallelized architecture, and web tools for managing clusters.

Its site says now · captured 2026-08-23

RethinkDB: the open-source database for the realtime web

The open-source database for the realtime web

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