PouchDB VS WatermelonDB

Compare PouchDB vs WatermelonDB and see what are their differences.

PouchDB

:koala: - PouchDB is a pocket-sized database. (by pouchdb)

WatermelonDB

🍉 Reactive & asynchronous database for powerful React and React Native apps ⚡️ (by Nozbe)
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PouchDB WatermelonDB
8 22
16,231 9,955
0.3% 1.7%
9.2 8.6
8 days ago 11 days ago
JavaScript JavaScript
Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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PouchDB

Posts with mentions or reviews of PouchDB. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-28.

WatermelonDB

Posts with mentions or reviews of WatermelonDB. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-04.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing PouchDB and WatermelonDB you can also consider the following projects:

Dexie.js - A Minimalistic Wrapper for IndexedDB

RxDB - A fast, local first, reactive Database for JavaScript Applications https://rxdb.info/

localForage - 💾 Offline storage, improved. Wraps IndexedDB, WebSQL, or localStorage using a simple but powerful API.

react-native-mmkv-storage - An ultra fast (0.0002s read/write), small & encrypted mobile key-value storage framework for React Native written in C++ using JSI

react-query - 🤖 Powerful asynchronous state management, server-state utilities and data fetching for TS/JS, React, Solid, Svelte and Vue. [Moved to: https://github.com/TanStack/query]

LokiJS - javascript embeddable / in-memory database

sql.js - A javascript library to run SQLite on the web.

react-native-encrypted-storage - React Native wrapper around EncryptedSharedPreferences and Keychain to provide a secure alternative to Async Storage.