Amazon DocumentDB vs RethinkDB

Amazon DocumentDB

Figure	Amazon DocumentDB	RethinkDB
Price from	—	Free
Free plan	—	Yes
Free trial	Yes	—
Open source	—	Yes
Web	Yes	Yes
Windows	—	Yes
macOS	—	Yes
Linux	—	Yes
API	Yes	Yes
Self-hosted	—	Yes
Plans published	11	1
Spec score · Document Databases	9.0 (#1)	8.3 (#8)
Integrations	DocumentDB integrates with CloudWatch metrics and alarms, AWS Lambda change-stream event sources, IAM, KMS, AWS Backup and OpenSearch zero-ETL pipelines.	Official documentation covers Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, Rails, publish-subscribe systems, Node.js libraries and multiple ORMs.
Rating on G2	4.3 out of 5 from 44 reviews	4.3 out of 5 from 15 reviews
Security	AWS documents VPC isolation, KMS encryption at rest, TLS in transit, IAM/RBAC controls, Secrets Manager and FedRAMP High authorization in GovCloud.	The documentation describes TLS encryption for server, client, and web UI connections, and recommends setting a password for the admin account, which has no password by default.
Use cases	AWS lists content management, e-commerce, mobile and web applications, and generative and agentic AI applications as use cases.	The site identifies collaborative apps, streaming analytics, multiplayer games, real-time marketplaces, and connected devices as use cases.

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