Data infrastructure

RethinkDB

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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 fe

Overview

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.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
Data infrastructureInfrastructureDevelopersDevelopersOpen source commercial

Founders & team

Michael Glukhovsky

Founder

Ex-founder of RethinkDB (S09), currently product lead for Stripe's API platform and developer product teams.

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
11team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
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Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

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