DBFlow vs Realm

DBFlow

A blazing fast, powerful, and very simple ORM android database library that writes database code for you. (by agrosner)

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Realm

Realm is a mobile database: a replacement for SQLite & ORMs (by realm)

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DBFlow		Realm
	Project
-	Mentions	3
4,868	Stars	11,441
-	Growth	0.1%
0.0	Activity	7.2
about 2 years ago	Latest Commit	20 days ago
Kotlin	Language	Java
MIT License	License	Apache License 2.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

DBFlow

Posts with mentions or reviews of DBFlow. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning DBFlow yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Realm

Posts with mentions or reviews of Realm. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-10.

Prepare your Android Project for Android Gradle plugin 8.0 API changes
1 project | /r/androiddev | 7 Oct 2022

I see "transform APIs will be removed" and then i remember how Realm used it quite heavily, but apparently they will update Realm to use it except this will force EVERYONE to start using Realm 10.13.0.
20+ Trending and Popular Java Open Source Project
19 projects | dev.to | 10 May 2022

Realm
How can I use realm?
1 project | /r/AndroidStudio | 14 Sep 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing DBFlow and Realm you can also consider the following projects:

Exposed - Kotlin SQL Framework

Apache Hive - Apache Hive

androrm - An Object Relational Mapper for Android.

ormlite - ORMLite Android functionality used in conjunction with ormlite-core

SQLDelight - SQLDelight - Generates typesafe Kotlin APIs from SQL

couchbase-lite-android - Lightweight, embedded, syncable NoSQL database engine for Android.

greenDAO - greenDAO is a light & fast ORM solution for Android that maps objects to SQLite databases.

JetBrains Xodus - Transactional schema-less embedded database used by JetBrains YouTrack and JetBrains Hub.

requery - requery - modern SQL based query & persistence for Java / Kotlin / Android

MapDB - MapDB provides concurrent Maps, Sets and Queues backed by disk storage or off-heap-memory. It is a fast and easy to use embedded Java database engine.

android-database-sqlcipher - Android SQLite API based on SQLCipher