SQLite.swift VS WCDB

Compare SQLite.swift vs WCDB and see what are their differences.

SQLite.swift

A type-safe, Swift-language layer over SQLite3. (by stephencelis)

WCDB

WCDB is a cross-platform database framework developed by WeChat. (by Tencent)
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SQLite.swift WCDB
16 2
9,458 10,461
- 4.7%
6.7 9.7
8 days ago 12 days ago
Swift C
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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SQLite.swift

Posts with mentions or reviews of SQLite.swift. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-04.

WCDB

Posts with mentions or reviews of WCDB. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-21.
  • Awesome macOS Libraries List
    76 projects | dev.to | 21 Jan 2022
    WCDB - WCDB is a cross-platform database framework developed by WeChat. Language: C.
  • Cross-Database Queries in SQLite
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Feb 2021
    SQLite is so ubiquitous you'd be hard pressed to find an app or service that doesn't use it.

    Look through the licenses for the software included as part of your phone's OS. You'll find SQLite in there.

    Search GitHub for sqlite, there are several projects with thousands of stars that use SQLite. Here's one: https://github.com/Tencent/wcdb

What are some alternatives?

When comparing SQLite.swift and WCDB you can also consider the following projects:

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

FMDB - A Cocoa / Objective-C wrapper around SQLite

MMKV - An efficient, small mobile key-value storage framework developed by WeChat. Works on Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, and POSIX.

SwiftData

Realm - Realm is a mobile database: a replacement for Core Data & SQLite

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

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

YapDatabase - YapDB is a collection/key/value store with a plugin architecture. It's built atop sqlite, for Swift & objective-c developers.