Realm VS WCDB

Compare Realm vs WCDB and see what are their differences.

WCDB

WCDB is a cross-platform database framework developed by WeChat. (by Tencent)
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Realm WCDB
48 2
16,124 10,461
0.2% 4.7%
9.1 9.7
5 days ago 12 days ago
Objective-C C
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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.

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.

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 Realm and WCDB you can also consider the following projects:

SwiftData

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

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

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

FMDB - A Cocoa / Objective-C wrapper around SQLite

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

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

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

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