ObjectBox for Mobile

Join over 400,000+ fellow developers that trust ObjectBox. We help developers build faster apps, faster. Check out our bindings for Android and iOS: Java, Kotlin, and Swift. Ensure consistency as you scale: ObjectBox DB gives you consistency in a serializable, ACID-compliant object-oriented mobile database with high performance at any scale.

10x faster

CRUD Operations | Entities per second

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1/10th the code

@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

// person.fbs
table Person {
    id: ulong;
    first_name: string;
    last_name: string;
}
...
OBX_txn* txn = obx_txn_begin(ob);
OBX_cursor* cursor = obx_cursor_create(txn, person_entity_id);
obx_id id = person_put(cursor, 0, "Joe", "Green");  // Create

Person_table_t person = person_get(cursor, id); // Read
person_put(cursor, Person_id(person), Person_first_name(person), "Black"); // Update
obx_cursor_remove(cursor, id); // Delete

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// person.fbs

table Person {

id: ulong;

first_name: string;

last_name: string;

}

...

OBX_txn* txn = obx_txn_begin(ob);

OBX_cursor* cursor = obx_cursor_create(txn, person_entity_id);

obx_id id = person_put(cursor, 0, "Joe", "Green"); // Create

Person_table_t person = person_get(cursor, id); // Read

person_put(cursor, Person_id(person), Person_first_name(person), "Black"); // Update

obx_cursor_remove(cursor, id); // 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"))

//go:generate objectbox-bindings
type Person struct {
   Id        uint64 `id`
   FirstName string
   LastName  string
}
...box := BoxForPerson(ob)

// Create
id, _ := box.Put(&Person{
   FirstName: "Joe",
   LastName:  "Green",
})

person, _ := box.Get(id) // Read
person.LastName = "Black"
box.Put(person)    // Update
box.Remove(person) // Delete

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//go:generate objectbox-bindings

type Person struct {

Id uint64 `id`

FirstName string

LastName string

}

...box := BoxForPerson(ob)

// Create

id, _ := box.Put(&Person{

FirstName: "Joe",

LastName: "Green",

})

person, _ := box.Get(id) // Read

person.LastName = "Black"

box.Put(person) // Update

box.Remove(person) // Delete

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>

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Mobile Database Features

ObjectBox is an embedded, object-oriented database for Mobile Apps and IoT. Our NoSQL, ACID-compliant DB is 10x faster than any alternative and takes only 1/10th of the code compared to SQLite. On top, we built a data synchronization solution that takes care of seamlessly syncing data between the phone and cloud, get in touch to start Syncing today.

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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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ObjectBox for Mobile

10x faster

1/10th the code

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.

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