DBMS > ObjectBox vs. Realm vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. Realm vs. SQLite

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

A mobile DBMS often used as a replacement for SQLite

Widely used in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#205	Overall
	#11	Object oriented DBMS

Score	7.35
Rank	#46	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	122.72
Rank	#11	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

objectbox.io

realm.io

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

realm.io/docs

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

Realm

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2017

2014

2000

Current release

3.29.0, July 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source info

Apache License 2.0

commercial info

Licenses are free. Parts are open sourced.

Open Source info

Public Domain

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

XML support info

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC info

inofficial driver
ODBC info

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
Go
Java
JavaScript info

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Python info

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts info

Access control

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

News

billiger.de Mobile App Case Study
14 August 2019

ObjectBox Swift Binding Open Sourced
22 July 2019

ObjectBox Go 1.0 release and performance benchmarks
16 July 2019

App Bundle and Sideloading: how to prevent crashes
15 July 2019

Edge Computing Case Study with easyGOband: How ObjectBox enables compatibility from Android, iOS, and Raspbian to Linux
1 July 2019

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.