Couchbase Mobile alternatives and similar libraries
Based on the "Database" category.
Alternatively, view Couchbase Mobile alternatives based on common mentions on social networks and blogs.
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MMKV
An efficient, small mobile key-value storage framework developed by WeChat. Works on Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, POSIX, and OHOS. -
YapDatabase
YapDB is a collection/key/value store with a plugin architecture. It's built atop sqlite, for Swift & objective-c developers. -
ParseAlternatives
DISCONTINUED. GraphQLite is a toolkit to work with GraphQL servers easily. It also provides several other features to make life easier during iOS application development. [Moved to: https://github.com/relatedcode/GraphQLite] -
Unrealm
Unrealm is an extension on RealmCocoa, which enables Swift native types to be saved in Realm. -
Prephirences
Prephirences is a Swift library that provides useful protocols and convenience methods to manage application preferences, configurations and app-state. UserDefaults -
PredicateEditor
A GUI for dynamically creating NSPredicates at runtime to query data in your iOS app. -
realm-cocoa-converter
A library that provides the ability to import/export Realm files from a variety of data container formats. -
SecureDefaults
Elevate the security of your UserDefaults with this lightweight wrapper that adds a layer of AES-256 encryption -
MySQL
A stand-alone Swift wrapper around the MySQL client library, enabling access to MySQL servers. -
PersistenceKit
Store and retrieve Codable objects to various persistence layers, in a couple lines of code! -
PersistentStorageSerializable
Swift library that makes easier to serialize the user's preferences (app's settings) with system User Defaults or Property List file on disk. -
ObjectiveRocks
An Objective-C wrapper for RocksDB - A Persistent Key-Value Store for Flash and RAM Storage. -
PostgreSQL
A stand-alone Swift wrapper around the libpq client library, enabling access to PostgreSQL servers. -
MongoDB
A stand-alone Swift wrapper around the mongo-c client library, enabling access to MongoDB servers. -
FileMaker
A stand-alone Swift wrapper around the FileMaker XML Web publishing interface, enabling access to FileMaker servers.
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Couchbase Lite for iOS and MacOS
Couchbase Lite is an embedded lightweight, document-oriented (NoSQL), syncable database engine.
Couchbase Lite implementation is on top of Couchbase Lite Core, which is also a new cross-platform implementation of database CRUD and query features, as well as document versioning.
Requirements
- iOS 9.0+ | macOS 10.11+
- Xcode 10.3+
Installation
Swift Package
Requirements:
- XCode 12+
Community Edition
dependencies: [
.package(name: "CouchbaseLiteSwift",
url: "https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-lite-ios.git",
from: "3.0.0"),
],
Enterprise Edition
dependencies: [
.package(name: "CouchbaseLiteSwift",
url: "https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-lite-swift-ee.git",
from: "3.0.0"),
],
More detailed information on how to setup is available here: swift package manager
CocoaPods
You can use CocoaPods to install CouchbaseLite
for Objective-C API or CouchbaseLiteSwift
for Swift API by adding it in your Podfile:
Objective-C
Community Edition
target '<your target name>' do
use_frameworks!
pod 'CouchbaseLite'
end
Enterprise Edition
target '<your target name>' do
use_frameworks!
pod 'CouchbaseLite-Enterprise'
end
Swift
Community Edition
target '<your target name>' do
use_frameworks!
pod 'CouchbaseLite-Swift'
end
Enterprise Edition
target '<your target name>' do
use_frameworks!
pod 'CouchbaseLite-Swift-Enterprise'
end
Carthage
You can use Carthage to install CouchbaseLite
by adding it in your Cartfile:
Community Edition
binary "https://packages.couchbase.com/releases/couchbase-lite-ios/carthage/CouchbaseLite-Community.json"
Enterprise Edition
binary "https://packages.couchbase.com/releases/couchbase-lite-ios/carthage/CouchbaseLite-Enterprise.json"
When running
carthage update or build
, Carthage will build both CouchbaseLite and CouchbaseLiteSwift framework.
How to build the framework files.
- Clone the repo and update submodules
$ git clone https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-lite-ios.git
$ cd couchbase-lite-ios
$ git submodule update --init --recursive
If not already installed, install doxygen,
brew install doxygen
Run ./Scripts/build_framework.sh to build a platform framework which could be either an Objective-C or a Swift framework. The supported platforms include iOS, tvOS, and macOS.
$ ./Scripts/build_framework.sh -s "CBL ObjC" -p iOS -o output // For building the ObjC framework for iOS
$ ./Scripts/build_framework.sh -s "CBL Swift" -p iOS -o output // For building the Swift framework for iOS
Documentation
Sample Apps
- Todo : Objective-C and Swift
License
Like all Couchbase source code, this is released under the Apache 2 [license](LICENSE).
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the Couchbase Mobile README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.