# RavenDB vs RethinkDB

**Leader by Vioscale score:** RavenDB

| Attribute | RavenDB | RethinkDB |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 56.1 (63% (medium)) | 38.7 (57% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | 0 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 1 | 1,283 |
| adoption.github_stars | 3,993 | 26,994 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | 26,043 | 16,422 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | RavenDB is a document database that automatically optimizes indexes and queries without manual configuration. It provides ACID transactions across clusters, master-master replication for high availability, and can be deployed in cloud, on-premises, or edge environments. | An open-source NoSQL database built on a distributed architecture that eliminates polling by pushing fresh data to applications automatically. It stores flexible JSON documents and is designed to simplify building applications that display live information to users. |
| features.capabilities | `{"schema":"optional_schema","hosting":"both","data_model":"document","ttl_expiry":true,"replication":"active_active","partitioning":"automatic","transactions":"multi_item_acid","vector_search":true,"change_streams":true,"secondary_indexes":"yes"}` | `{"schema":"schemaless","hosting":"self","data_model":"document","replication":"primary_secondary","license_class":"permissive","change_streams":true,"secondary_indexes":"yes"}` |
| integrations.count | 20 | 4 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"SQL Server"},{"name":"Oracle"},{"name":"PostgreSQL"},{"name":"MySQL"},{"name":"Elasticsearch"},{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"RabbitMQ"},{"name":"Snowflake"},{"name":"Amazon SQS"},{"name":"Azure Queue Storage"},{"name":"Azure Service Bus"},{"name":"Power BI"},{"name":"Akka.NET"},{"name":"Apache Parquet"},{"name":"NLog"},{"name":"Zabbix"},{"name":"Datadog"},{"name":"PTRG"},{"name":"Telegraf"},{"name":"Grafana"}]` | `[{"name":"Elasticsearch"},{"name":"RabbitMQ"},{"name":"Rails"},{"name":"PubNub"}]` |
| language.primary | C# | C++ |
| license.spdx | MIT | - |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | - | `{"type":"open_source","sourceUrl":"https://rethinkdb.com","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T16:45:31.517Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | - | yes |
| pricing.model | - | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | - | free |
| release.cadence_days | - | 25 |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/releases/tag/7.2.5","date":"2026-07-22T09:59:18Z","type":"stable","version":"7.2.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/releases/tag/7.1.11","date":"2026-07-22T08:56:33Z","type":"stable","version":"7.1.11"},{"url":"https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/releases/tag/6.2.18","date":"2026-07-22T07:42:02Z","type":"stable","version":"6.2.18"},{"url":"https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/releases/tag/7.2.4","date":"2026-06-16T09:21:38Z","type":"stable","version":"7.2.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/releases/tag/7.1.10","date":"2026-06-16T07:46:49Z","type":"stable","version":"7.1.10"},{"url":"https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/releases/tag/6.2.17","date":"2026-06-16T06:33:13Z","type":"stable","version":"6.2.17"},{"url":"https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/releases/tag/7.2.3","date":"2026-06-09T12:45:09Z","type":"stable","version":"7.2.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/releases/tag/7.1.9","date":"2026-06-09T09:42:35Z","type":"stable","version":"7.1.9"},{"url":"https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/releases/tag/6.2.16","date":"2026-06-09T08:15:07Z","type":"stable","version":"6.2.16"},{"url":"https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/releases/tag/7.2.2","date":"2026-04-28T11:13:59Z","type":"stable","version":"7.2.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/releases/tag/7.1.8","date":"2026-04-28T10:32:43Z","type":"stable","version":"7.1.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/releases/tag/6.2.15","date":"2026-04-28T09:56:00Z","type":"stable","version":"6.2.15"},{"url":"https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/releases/tag/7.2.1","date":"2026-03-17T12:58:08Z","type":"stable","version":"7.2.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/releases/tag/7.1.7","date":"2026-03-17T12:07:58Z","type":"stable","version":"7.1.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/releases/tag/6.2.14","date":"2026-03-17T11:10:42Z","type":"stable","version":"6.2.14"},{"url":"https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/releases/tag/5.4.214","date":"2026-02-23T14:01:21Z","type":"stable","version":"5.4.214"},{"url":"https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/releases/tag/7.2.0","date":"2026-02-02T14:40:19Z","type":"stable","version":"7.2.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/releases/tag/7.1.6","date":"2026-02-02T11:17:58Z","type":"stable","version":"7.1.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/releases/tag/6.2.13","date":"2026-02-02T10:25:03Z","type":"stable","version":"6.2.13"},{"url":"https://github.com/ravendb/ravendb/releases/tag/7.1.5","date":"2025-12-22T13:20:18Z","type":"stable","version":"7.1.5"}]` | `[{"url":"https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/releases/tag/v2.4.4","date":"2023-12-11T01:42:50Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.4.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/releases/tag/v2.4.3","date":"2023-02-05T01:14:53Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.4.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/releases/tag/v2.4.2","date":"2022-05-07T19:28:23Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.4.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/releases/tag/v2.4.1","date":"2020-08-14T19:51:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.4.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/releases/tag/v2.4.0","date":"2019-12-19T18:30:54Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.4.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/releases/tag/v2.3.6","date":"2017-07-23T02:20:28Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.3.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/releases/tag/v2.3.5","date":"2016-08-29T21:19:52Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.3.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/releases/tag/v2.3.4","date":"2016-06-04T05:27:48Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.3.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/releases/tag/v2.3.3","date":"2016-06-01T18:54:14Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.3.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/releases/tag/v2.3.2","date":"2016-05-06T19:00:05Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.3.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/releases/tag/v2.3.1","date":"2016-04-23T02:13:43Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.3.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/releases/tag/v2.3.0","date":"2016-04-06T15:57:30Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.3.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/releases/tag/v2.2.6","date":"2016-03-28T18:08:01Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.2.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/releases/tag/v2.2.5","date":"2016-02-24T23:33:36Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.2.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/releases/tag/v2.2.4","date":"2016-02-01T19:17:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.2.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/releases/tag/v2.1.6","date":"2016-02-01T19:14:47Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.1.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/releases/tag/v2.2.3-1","date":"2016-01-11T20:22:20Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.2.3-1"},{"url":"https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/releases/tag/v2.2.2","date":"2015-12-21T09:02:59Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.2.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/releases/tag/v2.2.1","date":"2015-11-17T09:14:41Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.2.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/releases/tag/v2.2.0","date":"2015-11-12T15:26:33Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.2.0"}]` |
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | 5.1 | 3.3 |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=rubygems&package_name=ravendb&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=npm&package_name=rethinkdb&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (NoSQL Databases)

| Capability | RavenDB | RethinkDB |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| Data model | Document | Document |
| **Query** |  |  |
| Query language | - | - |
| **Consistency** |  |  |
| Consistency | - | - |
| **Transactions** |  |  |
| Transactions | Multi-item ACID | - |
| **Indexing** |  |  |
| Secondary indexes | Yes | Yes |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Partitioning / sharding | Automatic | - |
| Multi-region | - | - |
| **Replication** |  |  |
| Replication topology | Active-active | Primary-secondary |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Cloud + self-hosted | Self-hosted only |
| **Schema** |  |  |
| Schema | Optional schema | Schemaless |
| **Features** |  |  |
| TTL / auto-expiry | ✓ | - |
| Change streams / CDC | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vector / search built-in | ✓ | - |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Licence class | - | Permissive OSS |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T16:36:15.722Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*