G2 Vendor Directory

RethinkDB vs. Fauna

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricRethinkDB

by The Linux Foundation

Fauna

by Fauna

Overall rating4.34.4
Review count1525
Ease of use9.28.0
Ease of setup8.98.4
Quality of support8.19.0
Meets requirements8.28.4
NPS46.66666756
Small Business53.3%64.0%
Mid-Market40.0%24.0%
Enterprise6.7%12.0%
Total page views2131
Total LLM citations3385

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.

Pros

    Fauna

    Fauna is a truly serverless operational database that empowers teams to ship applications faster. It combines the flexibility of a document model with the strong consistency and rich querying power of relational systems—all built on a serverless, distributed architecture that scales automatically, without the complexity of manual provisioning, sharding, or replication. Over 80,000 development teams choose Fauna to build and scale modern transactional applications including teams from Tyson Foods, Unilever, Lexmark, Intelliculture, Hannon Hill, Cloaked, DTLR, and Insights.gg.

    Pros

    • Scalability
    • Ease of Use
    • Flexibility
    • Reliability
    • Easy Integrations
    • Customer Support