MMKV VS Realm

Compare MMKV vs Realm and see what are their differences.

MMKV

An efficient, small mobile key-value storage framework developed by WeChat. Works on Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, and POSIX. (by Tencent)
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MMKV Realm
5 48
16,791 16,118
0.9% 0.1%
8.7 9.1
about 17 hours ago 6 days ago
C++ Objective-C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Apache License 2.0
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MMKV

Posts with mentions or reviews of MMKV. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-03.
  • Understanding security in React Native applications
    9 projects | dev.to | 3 Apr 2024
    react-native-mmkv is a wrapper around MMKV that allows you to easily implement secure storage in your app. It is arguably the fastest key-value storage for React Native apps
  • TOP 6 React Native libraries with native performance ⚡️
    9 projects | dev.to | 12 Jan 2023
    This library uses MMKV key-value storage and JSI to communicate between the JS side and the native side very quickly and synchronously. It is a suitable replacement for slow AsyncStorage. Follow this guide to migrate from AsyncStorage and get 30x faster on read and write operations in your app.
  • MMKV Visualizer - simple visualizer for mobile forensicators
    2 projects | /r/computerforensics | 27 Oct 2022
    For those unfamiliar with MMKV, here's a link to their GitHub - https://github.com/Tencent/MMKV. Used in many mobile applications, such as Discord.
  • React Native SWR Persistent Cache with MMKV
    3 projects | dev.to | 22 Apr 2022
    SWR library works great with React Native. By default, SWR library uses global cache store, but you will lose your cache when you reload your app. Here is a super-easy way to sync SWR cache with MMKV.
  • Getting Started with React Native JSI Modules
    3 projects | dev.to | 27 Jun 2021
    This library aims to provide a fast & reliable solution for you data storage needs in react-native apps. It uses MMKV by Tencent under the hood on Android and iOS both that is used by their WeChat app(more than 1 Billion users). Unlike other storage solutions for React Native, this library lets you store any kind of data type, in any number of database instances, with or without encryption in a very fast and efficient way. Read about it on this blog post I wrote on dev.to

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 2023-09-14.

What are some alternatives?

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

SQLite.swift - A type-safe, Swift-language layer over SQLite3.

SwiftData

ObjectBox embedded database - Swift database - fast, simple and lightweight (iOS, macOS)

GRDB.swift - A toolkit for SQLite databases, with a focus on application development

SQLite - A stand-alone Swift wrapper around the SQLite 3 client library.

FMDB - A Cocoa / Objective-C wrapper around SQLite

WCDB - WCDB is a cross-platform database framework developed by WeChat.

UserDefaults - Simple, Strongly Typed UserDefaults for iOS, macOS and tvOS

Couchbase Mobile - Lightweight, embedded, syncable NoSQL database engine for iOS and MacOS apps.