What is the best alternative to MongoDB with oplog?

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Redis

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Redis is written in ANSI C and therefore doesn't have a VM

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Good support

Redis has great docs, an active mailing list, and a github community. See More

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Redis uses the BSD license

This means that it is able to be used in a commercial product if one wants. See More

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There are numerous client libraries and frameworks to make redis more powerful

For Node.JS for example you can get something similar to what Parse.com was offering by using Node ORM. See More

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score 120 · Answer 2

RethinkDB

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Easy install

Only takes about 30 seconds to install. They also have a docker file for running it on AWS, Google Cloud or your own. See More

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Cannot run queries from its CLI

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Changefeeds (change listeners)

You can listen to changes and trigger code based on these changes. See More

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No user accounts

This is just the database, you need to setup your own auth and user accounts (such as using Auth0). See More

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Powerful query language

RethinkDB's ReQL is a very powerful functional query language. The functional aspects of ReQL and the straightforward implementation of the Node driver for Rethinkdb make it a natural fit for Javascript developers. You no longer have to type some obscure syntax in quotes (aka SQL), your queries are just "natural" Javascript functions in the same way you would use lodash to handle your collections. See More

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Auto master promotion

Unlike a lot of other databases where if the master is down the system is down, this one if the master is down someone else is made master so much more peer to peer. See More

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CLI and web administration tools

RethinkDB has administration tools in both CLI and GUI (web app). You can view whats going on right away by going to localhost:8080. The data explorer allows you to run queries on the db. See More

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Horizontal scalability

RethinkDB is scalable horizontally. It has support for sharding, parallel queries and MVCC concurrency. See More

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Ease of cluster setup

You can directly tell it to shard/replicate and how many shards/replicas depending on the amount of nodes. Each node doesn't need anything except one other node's ip/port in the cluster to join and maybe the auth. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac

Technology:C++, Python

JSON?:Yes

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score 62 · Answer 3

Google Firebase

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Flexible Pricing

The Blaze Plan is a pay-as-you-go plan, which is, you pay for what you use, without overhead or upfront costs. See More

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Google blocks Access

Some Google services, software and cloud systems, are not available to certain countries. blocked access by google following USA Policies. See More

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Straightforward hosting

Powered by Google's Cloud Platform, Firebase allows you to deploy static web pages or web applications with a nifty Node.js-based CLI Tool. See More

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Linked to Google Cloud Platform

If you don't have a Google Account, you won't be able to access Google cloud services, including this one. See More

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Super fast CDN

All static website content is hosted on the Fastly CDN making your website really fast. See More

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More than just hosting web applications

In the core of Firebase allows you to do testing for Android apps, Analytics, Real-time Database, and many more. It's centered mostly for progressive web applications and mobile applications with real-time connectivity to your service. See More

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Almost free if you add Cloudflare in front (no bandwidth costs) and cache effectively

The built-in CDN is great too, but if you're concerned about bandwidth costs, using it with Cloudflare is an excellent option option. See More

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