ObjectBox Mobile Database

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Mobile App developers trust ObjectBox. Join over 800,000+ developers that already use our fast NoSQL database to persist objects in mobile applications (locally). Build faster Android and iOS applications, faster. Enjoy native Java, Kotlin, Swift, and Dart APIs that are super intuitive to use. And use them to ensure smooth, offline-first user experiences: The ObjectBox Mobile database provides blazingly fast response rates at scale while stil being fully ACID-compliant. Oh, and one more thing: ObjectBox Mobile Database offers a highly efficient out-of-the-box Data Sync solution that enables developers to manage data flows bi-directionally via beautiful and simple APIs.

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10x faster than other Mobile Databases

CRUD Operations | Entities per second

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NoSQL – Intuitive APIs developers love

@Entity public class Person {
 @Id long id;
 String firstName;
 ...
}

// MyObjectBox is generated by ObjectBox
BoxStore boxStore = MyObjectBox.builder()
        .androidContext(YourApp.this).build();

Box<Person> box = boxStore.boxFor(Person.class);

Person person = new Person("Joe", "Green");
long id = box.put(person);    // Create
Person person = box.get(id);  // Read
person.setLastName("Black");
box.put(person);              // Update
box.remove(person);           // Delete

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@Entity public class Person {

@Id long id;

String firstName;

...

}

// MyObjectBox is generated by ObjectBox

BoxStore boxStore = MyObjectBox.builder()

.androidContext(YourApp.this).build();

Box<Person> box = boxStore.boxFor(Person.class);

Person person = new Person("Joe", "Green");

long id = box.put(person); // Create

Person person = box.get(id); // Read

person.setLastName("Black");

box.put(person); // Update

box.remove(person); // Delete

@Entity data class Person(
    @Id var id: Long = 0,
    var firstName: String,
    var lastName: String
)

val box = boxStore.boxFor<Person>()
box.put(Person(0, "Joe", "Green"))

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@Entity data class Person(

@Id var id: Long = 0,

var firstName: String,

var lastName: String

)

val box = boxStore.boxFor<Person>()

box.put(Person(0, "Joe", "Green"))

class Person: Entity {
   var id: Id<person> = 0
   var firstName: String
   var lastName: String 
   ...
}
 
let store = Store(directoryPath: aPermanentPath)
let box = store.box(for: Person.self)
 
let newPerson = Person(firstName: "Joe",
    lastName: "Green")
let id = try! box.put(newPerson)    // Create
let person = box.get(id)       // Read
person.lastName = "Black"
try! box.put(person)                // Update
try! box.remove(person)             // Delete
 
let query = box.query { 
    return Person.firstName == "Joe" 
        && Person.lastName.startsWith("B") }
let persons: [Person] = query.find()
</person>

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class Person: Entity {

var id: Id<person> = 0

var firstName: String

var lastName: String

...

}

let store = Store(directoryPath: aPermanentPath)

let box = store.box(for: Person.self)

let newPerson = Person(firstName: "Joe",

lastName: "Green")

let id = try! box.put(newPerson) // Create

let person = box.get(id) // Read

person.lastName = "Black"

try! box.put(person) // Update

try! box.remove(person) // Delete

let query = box.query {

return Person.firstName == "Joe"

&& Person.lastName.startsWith("B") }

let persons: [Person] = query.find()

</person>

@Entity() class Person { int id; String firstName; String lastName; }

// Note: in Flutter you also need to specify a directory, see examples. final

store = Store(getObjectBoxModel());

final box = store.box<Person>();

var person = Person()
  ..firstName = "Joe" 
  ..lastName = "Green";

final id = box.put(person);   // Create
 person = box.get(id);   // Read
 person.lastName = "Black"; box.put(person);   // Update
 box.remove(person.id);   // Delete

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@Entity() class Person { int id; String firstName; String lastName; }

// Note: in Flutter you also need to specify a directory, see examples. final

store = Store(getObjectBoxModel());

final box = store.box<Person>();

var person = Person()

..firstName = "Joe"

..lastName = "Green";

final id = box.put(person); // Create

person = box.get(id); // Read

person.lastName = "Black"; box.put(person); // Update

box.remove(person.id); // Delete

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ObjectBox enables mobile app developers to devote their time to what makes their apps stand out without worrying about storing and retrieving data.

Mobile Database Features

ObjectBox is an embedded, object-oriented database for Mobile Apps and IoT. Our NoSQL Mobile Database is 10x faster than any alternative, takes only 1/10th of the code compared to SQLite, and is a perfect alternative to SQLite and CoreData. On top, we built a data synchronization solution that takes care of seamlessly syncing data between the local mobile app and the backend / cloud. Get in touch to test ObjectBox out-of-the-box Data Sync now.

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LIGHTSPEED

Our motivation to build ObjectBox was to deliver the best possible performance, outperforming every embedded database we’ve ever tested.

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EASY OBJECT API

Objectbox is not an ORM, it is build for objects from the ground up, which means no more rows, columns, or SQL. Our concise API is easy to learn and only requires a fraction of the code compared to SQLite.

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QUERYBUILDER

With ObjectBox, simply query for objects with checks at compile times; no more typos causing crashes at runtime.

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OBJECT RELATIONS

Object references / relationships are build-in, native references.

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REACTIVE

Reacting to data changes is simple and powerful. Use reactive data observers from ObjectBox or integrate with RxJava.

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MULTIPLATFORM

ObjectBox supports Android, plain-Java, Kotlin (Linux and Windows), POSIX, MacOS, iOS, Go, Python, Dart/Flutter, and C/C++.

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INSTANT UNIT TESTING

With our multi-platform approach, you can run plain unit tests on the desktop (no Robolectric, on instrumentation tests) with a real database in milliseconds.

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ROBUST TECHNOLOGY

ACID (Atomic, Consistent, Isolated, Durable) properties and Multiversion Concurrency Control (MVCC) provide you with safe transactions and parallelism.

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SIMPLE THREADING

Objects returned by ObjectBox with in all threads. No strings attached.

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NO MANUAL SCHEMA MIGRATIONS

ObjectBox takes care of new object versions with added, removed and renamed properties. Automatic schema migration removes that chore for developers.

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DAOCOMPAT LIBRARY

greenDAO is an Object-Relational-Mapper (ORM). If you are already using greenDAO, you can seamlessly switch to ObjectBox using greenDAO compat APIs for ObjectBox. If you are using another ORM or DB, switching to ObjectBox is easy.

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BATTLE TESTED

From beta onward, ObjectBox has been running on 30k+ apps, and millions of devices. Of course, we’ve also run over 1,000 individual internal unit tests and empower apps with more than 20 million installs.

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Developers Love ObjectBox

Thanks for such a powerful database solution, I can’t imagine my life without ObjectBox now

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MathTrainer – build with ObjectBox

Terrific job, ObjectBox is marvelous solution, it almost makes data persistence invisible. I was really astonished to see how the code shrunk before my eyes when I replaced realm. I am still amazed how simple all of it is.

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@Crispert

Keep up the amazing work! As I found eventbus some time ago I was like: HOLY these guys know where the “problem” is and try to find a brilliant solution to it without making things complicated. Anyone can clearly see that this approach is reflected in ObjectBox again.

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ObjectBox Mobile Database

10x faster than other Mobile Databases

NoSQL – Intuitive APIs developers love

Synchronize Data Seamlessly

ObjectBox enables mobile app developers to devote their time to what makes their apps stand out without worrying about storing and retrieving data.

Mobile Database Features

Developers Love ObjectBox

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