Android - Which one to use Active Android or Realm

Question

I have been using ActiveAndroid for a while and i recently heard about Realm being another good option. I was thinking about changing my app to use Realm but before doing that,i was looking if someone has done the performance comparison between these two. I found some comparison on realm's website but those were with ORMLite and SQLite.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Answer 1

Realm cannot be directly compared to ActiveAndroid as Realm is a mobile database with its own persistence engine built for simplicity and speed to replace the traditional SQLite while ActiveAndroid is an ORM for SQLite. So when moving into Realm means you will no longer be using the traditional SQLite.

Yes, Realm is fast(according to my experience and according to their benchmark tests) but the difference over the traditional SQLite is not noticeable, unless your app uses database transactions or searches heavily, then I suggest you use Realm. If not, then the already working ActiveAndroid would do fine.

Although, I suggest when doing a new project/app, try to familiarize with Realm so that when you would be come up an app that uses database heavily, you really would appreciate the speed of Realm.