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How to set up ObjectBox Go on Raspberry Pi
ObjectBox is a fast object-oriented database for IoT and Mobile edge computing. With its Go support, ObjectBox is a perfect match for Raspberry Pi and will add instant speed to your next Raspberry project. To get started right away, jump straight to the Installation...
Objectively Swifter Database: How Swift + C outperform Objective-C
We've been optimizing ObjectBox for speed right from the beginning, making it the fastest database for edge computing around. However, the fastest library in the world is useless if its interface to your language isn't optimized for that language's strengths and...
ObjectBox Python Alpha
ObjectBox database persists objects and is now available as an Alpha on Python. We are looking forward to the open source community helping us extend it to a 1.0+ 🙂
ObjectBox EdgeX Release (Beta)
Now Released! ObjectBox EdgeX v1.1 >> 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Go, ObjectBox Golang!
Today, we are bringing the power of ObjectBox to Golang. 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...
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...
ObjectBox 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...
GitCoin: Harnessing the Power of Blockchain for Open Source
Gitcoin is used by nearly 50,000 developers and delivered more than $6.5mm 💰 to open source developers around the world in 2020 ❤️. The topic of sustainability of Open Source and means of securing funds for independent open source developers has been of increasing...
EdgeX Interview: Why open source is key for IoT and Edge Computing
EdgeX Foundry is a free open-source alternative IoT-platform, which has seen wild success in the last two years. Indeed within 6 months the platform has grown its adoption from 1 million to 5 million instances being used in early 2020. By the end of August 2020, EdgeX...
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...
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...
Top 5 reasons why edge computing is crucial for IoT
IoT is growing at a very rapid rate and with it the vast amount of data it produces. Handling these amounts of data is an unresolved challenge. Edge Computing could be part of the solution. According to Dave Evans of Cisco, in 2010 the number of IoT devices connected...
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...
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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