Realm for Android
Data
embedded mobile database
SHOW HN2014
108points
53comments
#260of 2,272 in 2014
Top 12%of 2014 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
13 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 9 critical, out of 34 comments about the project. Thread score +0.09.
Design: 5 for, 2 againstPerformance: 3 for, 2 againstIdea: 3 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 3 againstExecution: 2 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Simpler API than SQLite and ORMs
From 2 comments
Anything that will reduce the API hell that is working with SQLite on Android is worth a second look. Better speed is just icing on the cake.
Ilios on HNIt's great to finally see a serious alternative for data storage on Android, and not just one wrapping SQLite at that. While you may not be completely sold on Realm, competition…
annoia on HN
Competition for Android data storage is welcome
From 1 comment
It's great to finally see a serious alternative for data storage on Android, and not just one wrapping SQLite at that. While you may not be completely sold on Realm, competition…
annoia on HN
Good performance and smaller disk size
From 1 comment
Absolutely. SQLite definitely beats us today on documentation, ecosystem — heck even on stability. Beyond offering a more simple API, we hope to have an edge on performance, data…
timanglade on HN
Objections
Requires setters for every model attribute, no public properties
From 1 comment
Eek so I actually have to make/use a setter for every single attribute of my models? That's definitely a deal breaker for me.
jc4p on HN
Synchronous I/O unsuitable for the Android main thread
From 1 comment
It looks like all I/O happens synchronously, which means you generally should not run that on Android's main thread. You could just warp all interactions in AsyncTasks, but…
bnr on HN
Lacks SQLite's documentation and ecosystem
From 1 comment
Honestly, SQLite has a lot of utilities, tutorials, useful adapters and UI hooks in Android. Core Data similarly on iOS. If you want me to go to your framework instead, you'd…
lnanek2 on HN
Benchmarks did not reuse compiled statements at first
From 1 comment
Given the insert speeds, I'm guessing they're (still) not reusing compiled statements. I mentioned this last time I saw Realm on the front page[1], but their benchmarks are…
Groxx on HN
Gradle plugin and Java version setup problems in docs
From 2 comments
Just as a heads up your documentation doesn't work with the newest version of the Android Gradle plugin (0.13.0), see here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/25939518/472021 the…
jc4p on HNYour JavaDocs miss a rather important information that Java SDK needs to be switched from 1.6 to at least 1.7 (in Android Studio, under Project Settings) for the thing to work!…
V-2 on HN
Requests
Easy JSON import into RealmObjects
From 2 comments
Just as a heads up your documentation doesn't work with the newest version of the Android Gradle plugin (0.13.0), see here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/25939518/472021 the…
jc4p on HNI was trying to add in a Realm test to a benchmarking project I already have set up to see how quickly I can retrieve a list of Stack Exchange sites from disk/db/etc, the Site…
jc4p on HN
Async API with callbacks
From 1 comment
It looks like all I/O happens synchronously, which means you generally should not run that on Android's main thread. You could just warp all interactions in AsyncTasks, but…
bnr on HN
Windows, .NET and Xamarin support
From 2 comments
I'm using Realm on iOS at the moment for a reasonably large application. I originally had a C cross-platform core based on SQLite, but I found it too difficult to maintain and…
pm on HNWhat about Xamarin?
cwyers on HN
Phonegap support
From 1 comment
Can you use Realm with Phonegap applications?
bravura on HN
Network sync
From 1 comment
Honestly, SQLite has a lot of utilities, tutorials, useful adapters and UI hooks in Android. Core Data similarly on iOS. If you want me to go to your framework instead, you'd…
lnanek2 on HN
Questions
Why build a new database instead of an ORM on SQLite
From 1 comment
So you actually _do_ provide your own db then? I'd love to know a bit more about this. What drove the decision to roll your own? Seeing as how SQLite is pretty mature and widely…
pdpi on HN
How to keep Realm objects across configuration changes
From 1 comment
I've always wondered how folks handle the Parcelable[1] interface with libraries like this. If you have a realm object that you want to have in memory between activity…
zackb on HN
Where the 20,000 iOS users estimate comes from
From 1 comment
Where does the 20,000 iOS users stat come from? I think it's really cool what Realm is doing.
orta on HN
Alternatives named
SQLite
From 2 comments
Honestly, SQLite has a lot of utilities, tutorials, useful adapters and UI hooks in Android. Core Data similarly on iOS. If you want me to go to your framework instead, you'd…
lnanek2 on HNAnything that will reduce the API hell that is working with SQLite on Android is worth a second look. Better speed is just icing on the cake.
Ilios on HN
ActiveAndroid
From 1 comment
If the main selling point is a nice interface, its not much of an improvemrnt over things like ActiveAndroid (ORM for sqlite) I'll need to read more to judge it on other grounds.
hayksaakian on HN
Core Data
From 1 comment
Honestly, SQLite has a lot of utilities, tutorials, useful adapters and UI hooks in Android. Core Data similarly on iOS. If you want me to go to your framework instead, you'd…
lnanek2 on HN
Couchbase Lite
From 1 comment
It's good to see more options for mobile data. If you're interested in an open source database that handles the network for you, Couchbase Lite syncs using an Apache CouchDB…
jchrisa on HN