ObjectBox Swift 1.4 – In Relation to…
ObjectBox for Swift 1.4 makes object relations more natural and intuitive for Swift developers. For example, let's take the teacher-student relation to Swift and how you store objects in the database. Let's say "Teacher" is a Swift class that has a collection called...
Edge Database Comparison: SQLite and SQLite alternatives
Note: This is an updated version of an earlier Mobile Database Comparison. Last Update: 2020.What is a mobile database? While Wikipedia defines a mobile database as “Mobile computing devices (e.g., smartphones and PDAs) store and share data over a mobile network, or a...
What Drives Edge Computing?
What drives edge computing? New use cases and the need to make use of the ever growing data masses in a sustainable and economic way.
How Building Green IoT Solutions on the Edge Can Help Save Energy and CO2
The internet of things (IoT) has a huge potential to reduce carbon emissions, as it enables new ways of operating, living, and working [1] that are more efficient and sustainable. However, IoT’s huge and growing electricity demands are a challenge. This demand is due...
Time Series & Objects: Using Data on the Edge
Many IoT projects collect, both time series data and other types of data. Typically, this means they will run two databases: A time-series database and a traditional database or key/value store. This creates fracture and overhead, which is why ObjectBox TS brings...
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Introducing: ObjectBox Generator, plus C++ API [Request for Feedback!]
We are introducing the ObjectBox Generator today to simplify ObjectBox development for more programming languages, starting with C/C++. Additionally, we are releasing a brand new C++ API that goes hand in hand with the new generator. Historically, our C API was rather...
Why Edge Computing is More Relevant in 2020 Than Ever
The world has recently been forced to digitize - both more quickly and to a greater extent; coronavirus has created the need to remodel how work, socializing, production, entertainment, and supply chains function. Despite decades of digitization efforts, with the...
Why do we need Edge Computing for a sustainable future?
Centralized data centers consume a lot of energy, produce a lot of carbon emissions and cause significant electronic waste. While data centers are seeing a positive trend towards using green energy, an even more sustainable approach (alongside so-called "green data...
Connecting database performance and business value – a fast edge database is a money saver
We frequently get asked: “Why does database performance matter?” “What is the business value of database speed?” As a developer, it seems clear that database performance matters. At the very least, a fast database that gives you out-of-the-box speed saves time and...
How EV Charging Benefits from Edge Computing
Edge computing allows data to be stored and used on local devices. Integrating Edge Computing directly within electric vehicle charging infrastructure improves station usability and also allows for real-time energy management.Car charging and electric vehicles The era...
MoodSpace Mobile App Use Case
We speak with Ian Alexander, founder and lead developer at MoodSpace, an app making mental health exercises accessible to everyone. MoodSpace was released in 2019, and has over 150,000 downloads. After trying several databases, Ian settled on ObjectBox because of its...
ObjectBox Go 1.1
The 1.1 release of ObjectBox for Go is now available, bringing new features such as Box insert() and update() semantics, a new AsyncBox with all write operations (put, insert, update, delete), improved Queries with order and aliases; as well as some fixes and quality...
ObjectBox EdgeX v1.1 – database with ARM32 support
With EdgeX Foundry just reaching v1.1, we continue to provide ObjectBox as an embedded high-performance database backend so you can start using ObjectBox EdgeX v1.1 right away. If you need data reliability and high-speed database operations, ObjectBox is for you....
Sync.Drone: a drone project based on ObjectBox
This spring, a student group from Augsburg University of Applied Sciences build a drone application based on ObjectBox Database and Sync. This is a guest blog post by Michelle from the sync.drone project group, describing the project from start to finish and sharing...
ObjectBox Java 2.4
Update: newer versions were released; check the changelog for details. The 2.4.0 update of ObjectBox for Java (and Kotlin) is here. We encourage everyone to update to this release, as it includes quite a few quality of life improvements and resolves many of the...
The best IoT Databases for the Edge – an overview and compact guide
Powerful IoT Edge Databases are a pre-requisite for true Edge Computing. Learn about the Edge Database Landscape here.
The swift iOS database – ObjectBox Swift 1.0 Released
Update: newer versions have been released. Check the changelog. ObjectBox Swift 1.0 is here! Since the first public alpha released 10 months ago, we've worked hard and made major changes to put Swift first, tune the performance, and iterate on the API. We hope you...
Car Tolling – A case for Edge Computing
Governments often face tight budgets on infrastructure development; car tolling is increasingly seen as the answer for raising funds¹, making it more and more prevalent. From 2008 to 2018 the total length of tolled roads in Europe increased by 23%² and tolling revenue...
How to benchmark database performance – and ObjectBox
Benchmarking the performance of databases is a science in and of itself and it’s hard to get reliable and comparable results. Therefore, we decided to note down some standard patterns and pitfalls when doing database benchmarks we learned about over the years. We are...
billiger.de Mobile App Case Study
Vivien: Hi Arne, great to talk with you today. Let’s get started by learning more about you and billiger.de. Arne: Hi Vivien. I’ve been doing software development for more than 10 years, and API design for the last 5 years. I am currently responsible for mobile...
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