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# RethinkDB Reviews
**Vendor:** The Linux Foundation  
**Category:** [Document Databases](https://www.g2.com/categories/document-databases)  
**Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 15
## About 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.




## RethinkDB Reviews
  ### 1. A young user-friendly and featureful Database but...

**Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Alexandre C. | Senior Go Engineer, Internet, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2016

**What do you like best about RethinkDB?**

First what I like best is the transparency of the RethinkDB team and its dedication to make RethinkDB a user-friendly product.
The website is full of information about the current bugs and performance issues. And there is a real effort to make the product very user-friendly: a nice documentation, a beautiful UI, a clean and well-thought API, simple sharding and replication features, joins, real-time features...

It really has lots of attractive features for such a young product.

**What do you dislike about RethinkDB?**

RethinkDB is still quite slow for many operations. I know a Swiss start-up that switched from RethinkDB to PostgreSQL because of performance issues. These problems could be fixed in the future but if you need good performance right now at the very least do some benchmark and load-testing before investing too much in this database.

Also using RethinkDB made me realize that I prefer databases that use a text-based query language (SQL databases, Cassandra, Redis, ...) than databases that use a Javascript API by default (MongoDB, RethinkDB, ...) because:
 - drivers in other languages are easier to implement when you just have to send some tex queriest than when you have to mimic the Javascript API.
 -  Javascript is a very dynamic language and it is sometimes hard to mimic the Javascript API in other languages, especially in compiled ones. It makes the API in all languages different, so you first have to learn the Javascript API and then you have to look how to do it in your language. The languages in the official documentation are JavaScript, Python, Ruby and Java. So be careful if you are not using one of these languages.
 - It makes unit tests more difficult to do. A database with a large API containing plenty of functions is harder to mock than a SQL database with a leaner API.

**Recommendations to others considering RethinkDB:**

Do benchmarks for your use. Think twice if you are not using JavaScript, Python, Ruby or Java.

**What problems is RethinkDB solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I used RethinkDB on small personal projects and have not used it in production.



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## RethinkDB Features
**Data Management**
- Data Model
- Data Types
- Built - In Search
- Event Triggers
- Semantic Search

**Agentic AI - AWS Marketplace**
- Autonomous Task Execution
- Multi-step Planning
- Cross-system Integration

**Availability**
- Auto Sharding
- Auto Recovery
- Data Replication
- Backup and Recovery
- Real-Time Data

**Performance**
- Query Optimization
- Ad hoc Query

**Security**
- Role-Based Authorization
- Authentication
- Audit Logs
- Encryption

**Support**
- Multi-Model
- Operating Systems
- BI Connectors
- Data Connectors

**Additional Functionality**
- Database Conversion
- Monitoring
- Activity Dashboard
- Data Extraction
- Reporting/Analytics
- Automatic Backup
- Real-Time Monitoring
- Audit Management
- Data Visualization
- Ad hoc Reporting
- Compliance Management
- Indexing
- Search/Filter
- Alerts/Notifications
- Data Verification
- Performance Testing
- Data Capture and Transfer
- Security Auditing
- Access Controls/Permissions
- Role-Based Permissions
- Data Mapping
- Data Retrieval
- AI Copilot
- Third-Party Integrations
- Generative AI
- Configuration Management
- Audit Trail
- For NoSQL Databases
- Data Import/Export
- Data Migration
- Data Synchronization
- API
- Serverless Accessibility
- Multiple Data Sources

**Database Features**
- Storage
- Availability
- Stability
- Scalability
- Security
- Data Manipulation
- Query Language

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