# rethinkdb/rethinkdb-go

Go language driver for RethinkDB

Repository: https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb-go
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/rethinkdb-go
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: rethinkdb, go, gorethink, driver, rethinkdb-go, golang
Last push: 2025-10-24T06:36:10+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 44/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 48, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4738, "days_push": 313, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1646, forks 178 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:16.295007+00:00)

## What it is
The official Go language driver for RethinkDB, providing a full-featured client for connecting to and querying RethinkDB databases. It supports connection pooling, cluster connections, and the RethinkDB v0.4 wire protocol.

## Use cases
- connect to rethinkdb from a go application
- query rethinkdb with go
- use rethinkdb connection pooling in golang
- connect to a rethinkdb cluster from go
- run rethinkdb queries from a go service

## When to choose
- you are building a Go application backed by RethinkDB
- you need connection pooling and cluster-aware connections to RethinkDB
- you want the maintained official Go driver for RethinkDB v2.4+

## When to avoid
- you use a database other than RethinkDB
- you need to talk to RethinkDB versions older than 2.0 (v0.4 protocol only)
- your project is not written in Go

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: database-driver, database
- domain: databases, developer-tools
- platform: go, windows, cross-platform
- tags: rethinkdb, golang-driver, nosql, connection-pool, cluster-support, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- rethinkdb/rethinkdb-go (main) score 44

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:16.295007+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:45:23.516203+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb-go (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:16.295007+00:00, sha 52c7cb520b47)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.