WCDB VS MMKV

Compare WCDB vs MMKV and see what are their differences.

WCDB

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

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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WCDB MMKV
2 5
10,446 16,791
4.7% 0.9%
9.7 8.7
8 days ago 1 day ago
C C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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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.

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

What are some alternatives?

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

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

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

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

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

FMDB - A Cocoa / Objective-C wrapper around SQLite

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

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.