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Redis
For developers, who are building real-time data-driven applications, Redis is the preferred, fastest, and most feature-rich cache, data structure server, and document and vector query engine.
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Ansible
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
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Hasura
Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on all your data with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events.
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MySQL
MySQL Server, the world's most popular open source database, and MySQL Cluster, a real-time, open source transactional database.
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Servo
Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.
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cockroach
CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.
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CouchDB
Seamless multi-primary syncing database with an intuitive HTTP/JSON API, designed for reliability
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dice
Discontinued DiceDB is an open-source, fast, reactive, in-memory database optimized for modern hardware.
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The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better RethinkDB alternative or higher similarity.
RethinkDB discussion
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-09-23.
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Ask HN: Why isn't anyone using RethinkDB anymore?
Hey HN.
I came across RethinkDB lately and i'm curious why most startups, projects and folks don't use it?
https://rethinkdb.com/
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The YAML Document from Hell
If anyone wants to raid some code for simpler YAML, I wrote a version for the RethinkDB tests a long time ago:
https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/blob/main/test/common...
The problem I was trying to solve was that our tests involved a lot of things that looked like dicts (in fact they were), so my YAML-like parser stops parsing things when it looks like we have hit test code. This took out so much escaping, and made it easy to copy-paste tests into a REPL when you were working on the test (and vise-versa).
So it looks like YAML, but without most of the features, and without the footguns.
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- Show HN: Triplit – Open-source syncing database that runs on server and client
- Ask HN: How Can I Make My Front End React to Database Changes in Real-Time?
- RethinkDB: The open-source database for the realtime web
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You forget RethinkDB, it's a shame
I've been poking around, testing and breaking database servers for a long time (more than 20 years today). But a few years ago I came across a jewel, the grail, one of the best solutions available. Under the radar, shunned for whatever reason, RethinkDB is nonetheless one of the finest database server projects I've ever tested.
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Ask HN: Anyone Using RethinkDB in Production?
RethinkDB[0] looks like a "too good to be true" type of database. Anyone using it in production? What is your experience like? What are the pros and cons?
[0] https://rethinkdb.com
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Since you’re not new to the field you might want to peek https://rethinkdb.com/ since it got picked up as an open source project.
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What's the big deal about key-value databases like FoundationDB ands RocksDB?
No I don't think that's relevant. They implement their own btree it seems [0].
They don't use a key-value store library.
I know it's a bit of a fine line. But I'm talking about standalone libraries people embed across different applications/databases. That's what RocksDB/LevelDB/Pebble are.
[0] https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/tree/v2.4.x/src/btree
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rethinkdb/rethinkdb is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of RethinkDB is C++.
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