RethinkDB

RethinkDB explores how databases can be intelligently designed to benefit from solid-state disks and flash storage. Founded in 2009, and based in Mountain View, California, RethinkDB is a Y Combinator-funded company.

No more seek latency.

RethinkDB is designed to be extremely fast, and implements powerful features that are cumbersome and inefficient with rotational storage. Today's databases heavily optimize to account for high seek latency—the time it takes for a rotational drive's platter to move. RethinkDB takes full advantage of solid-state drives, making traditional data storage layouts unnecessary.

Append-only approach.

Solid-state drives provide fast random reads, enabling append-only storage technology. We use elegant and simple algorithms to deliver amazing features and performance that is up to ten times faster than existing databases.

Simpler caching, index maintanence, and ACID.

Append-only algorithms allow for simpler, more efficient caching. Maintaining data indexes and implementing ACID properties, traditionally arduous tasks, is easy and elegant in RethinkDB. This makes RethinkDB less prone to bugs, faster, and more secure.

Databases the way they were meant to be.

RethinkDB borrows ideas from many diverse areas of computer science. Because we're no longer constrained by the limitations of rotational drives, we can bring our ideas to reality and build a database the way it was always meant to be built.