Objectively Swifter: How Swift & C superpowers outperform Objective-C in ObjectBox Swift 0.8
While we've been optimizing ObjectBox for speed right from the beginning, making it the fastest database around, the fastest library in the world is useless if its interface to your language isn't optimized for that language's strengths and weaknesses. The 0.8.0...
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ObjectBox Python Alpha
As of today, you’ll be able to start using ObjectBox from the comfort of Python. Whether you’re building an IoT solution, a desktop utility or a webservice, you’ll find the ObjectBox database handy to help you with data persistence. Among other features, ObjectBox...
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ObjectBox EdgeX Release (Beta)
ObjectBox now runs on the EdgeX Foundry IoT Edge Platform. Utilizing ObjectBox’ speed and ease of use, EdgeX users can now compute millions of data points on the edge with minimal latency. ObjectBox’ small footprint of less than 1MB makes the database uniquely...
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Azure Sphere & ObjectBox: IoT Sensor Demo
A few weeks ago, we published ObjectBox for Azure Sphere. Today, we are adding IoT sensor data collection to this. It's a working demonstration that you can run on your machine along with an Azure Sphere board. To jump straight to it, here is the repository.Forwarding...
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ObjectBox on Azure Sphere: Efficient IoT data persistence
Listening to our IoT users, we implemented ObjectBox support for Microsoft's Azure Sphere. With this extension, you can use ObjectBox on tiny devices now. But let us explain a bit more... What is Edge computing? Centralized computing entails a central computer storing...
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The ObjectBox Swift Beta is Here!
If you’ve ever needed a database for your iOS app, you’ve probably had to manage schemas, tables, query strings and all sorts of overhead. Moreover, whenever you wanted to modify the structure of your database, you had to write migration code so that your users’ data...
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ObjectBox Swift for iOS and macOS
We’re happy to share our first Swift version of the ObjectBox database for iOS and macOS! We want to give you a Swift “native” API without any ObjectiveC legacy shining through, which is why we decided to put Swift, with its unique language features, first. We really...
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Go, ObjectBox Golang!
Today, we are bringing the power of ObjectBox to Go. Whatever solution you are building, be it a web service, an IoT/IIoT solution, or any data-driven application, you will benefit from the efficiency and speed of ObjectBox (see benchmarks below). Let us know what you...
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ObjectBox C API for IoT
The ObjectBox C API is here, as requested by IoT C/C++ developers. ObjectBox's efficiency is a perfect match for the Internet of Things with its resource-restricted devices and need for offline capability. The ObjectBox C API allows C/C++ developers to create...
read moreObjectBox 2.2 comes with important fixes
We released ObjectBox 2.2 for Android more than a week ago: It comes with important fixes and we advise to update to the latest version asap. We noticed that already fixed issues are still being reported. Thus, we decided to dedicate a small blog post to increase the...
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GitCoin: Harnessing the Power of Blockchain for Open Source
Vivien had the chance to chat with Kevin Owocki, about his latest project GitCoin, and the intersection of open sourcce and blockchain. Startup entrepreneur, founder of GitCoin Vivien: Hi Kevin, thanks for talking with me today. Why don’t you start by telling me about...
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What are the benefits of Edge Computing?
The benefits of edge computing stem directly from the underlying paradigm: Edge Computing is a decentralized computing architecture as opposed to a centralized/cloud computing model. Benefits of Edge Computing put simplyData ownership / privacy: Data can...
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EdgeX Interview: Why open source is key for IoT and Edge Computing
We were thrilled to speak with Michael Hall, Brett Preston (the Linux foundation) and Jim White (Dell) about their open source platform EdgeX. Jim is Vice Chair of the Technical Steering Committee of EdgeX. He is also Team Lead of the IoT Platform Development and IoT...
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ObjectBox 2.0
With the release of ObjectBox 2.0 we are hitting a new milestone on our journey to make embedded databases simpler to use and faster. Two of the highlights we already announced in our 2.0 beta post: links (aka joins) and relation completeness. The final release brings...
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A Successful Open Source Story Uwe Trottmann – SeriesGuide
We had the opportunity to interview Uwe Trottmann, creator and principal contributor of the app SeriesGuide with over 1 Million downloads on Google Play. He received his M.Sc. Computer Science at TU Munich in 2013 and is interested in making software usable for...
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Key Ideas to Empower Women in the Tech Industry
Highlight-Women in Tech Panel at Droidcon Berlin 2018 Meet the speakers This year at droidcon Berlin 2018 during the interactive day we were lucky to have the opportunity to host the Women in Tech panel. Our panelists had some very interesting things to say and we...
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ObjectBox 2.0 beta with Links (aka Joins)
ObjectBox 2.0 will be a big step ahead and we are proud to announce the beta release today. Relations and queries are the two major themes. First, ObjectBox finally allows queries to use relations to expand queries across multiple entities. We call this "link" and it...
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Droidcon Berlin Women in Tech Panel 2018
We are looking forward to the Women in Tech panel at droidcon Berlin. It will be taking place during the Interactive Day on June 25th from 3:00-3:45PM. The numbers show, there is still a lack of diversity in technology in both the startup world and the established...
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Let’s dive into the iOS World
Two days ago, we attended the Swift Lighting Talks Meetup in Munich for the very first time. We had beer, pizza and listened to Sebastian Sellmeier’s presentation on making programming accessible and Denis Grebennicov’s presentation on the process of developing a...
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ObjectBox 1.5: Full support for local Android unit tests
We're happy to announce ObjectBox 1.5, which comes with a couple of small but useful improvements. A focus for this release were local unit tests for Android. The test setup was greatly simplified and support for relations was added. Now, you can write super fast unit...
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