There's a quote from Unity CEO on the frontpage — should we expect Realm appear in Unity-land as well?
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#82There's a quote from Unity CEO on the frontpage — should we expect Realm appear in Unity-land as well?
Doubt it. It's pretty common to ask "testimonials" from people with authority for publicity etc.
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#83I can't tell -- does it support upserts?
Currently not as a specific one liner.
It's super simple to do it yourself, but we will likely add that convenience method shortly.
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#84Well I think everyone agrees it looks like something pretty interesting but I couldn't find anywhere what's the easiest way of migrating from CoreData w/sqlite to Realm? Not sure if the tradeoff of rebuilding everything would be worth it for the increase in performance.
We will surely add some guides to address that need (and many others). In the coming time we would love to expand on the documentation and clarification so you can learn Realm as easily as possible. Feel free to ping us with anything needing specific attention in the support forum: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/realm-users
As for the tradeoff, I guess that heavily depends on the specifics of your app. You are the only one who can judge that depending on your current app pain points, maturity and future needs.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Anyone using CouchbaseLite? http://developer.couchbase.com/mobile/#couchbase-lite I see a lot of comments here about wanting a CoreData replacement that's better at sync, which is exactly the use case CouchbaseLite is meant to solve.
Seriously love this product. What the Realm guys are missing is the fact that Couchbase Lite is really a replication protocol overlayed SQLite. Couchbase Lite did not always use SQLite and is in the process of switching to ForestDB as the underlying persistent store. As far as API's go, I have not seen a more intuitive design than CBL's. It almost makes too much sense. Once you get Sync Gateway setup, you have a mini…
There is another produce coming out from Cloudant very similar, but with even more friendly api IMHO
Re: Show HN: Realm (YC S11), a mobile database
#86I have to give it a try, but how well does it work with different BaaS providers like Parse, Kinvey, Appacitive etc?
Right now there is no specific integration into any BaaS.
A Realm database is just a (compact) file that you can send as you see fit. As most BaaS solutions has their own local storage and API it may not always make sense to integrate, except that you could easily store a small Realm file as a blob in any BaaS and transfer it remotely.
It will also really soon be possible to export some or all objects as json which you then again can send to remote services. That does however take up much more space/bandwidth compared to Realms compact data format, but could be needed if you want to persist remotely in another database format.
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#87That Four Square demo is quite amazing, I'm looking forward to give a try in near future.
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#88The speed, simplicity, and lack of headaches (threads, contexts, etc) really make this an interesting solution. Hope these guys/gals crush this!
Re: Show HN: Realm (YC S11), a mobile database
#89The speed, simplicity, and lack of headaches (threads, contexts, etc) really make this an interesting solution. Hope these guys/gals crush this!
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