Realm (YC S11) Announces $20M Series B, 100M Devices After 9 Months

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Post by astigsen » Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 2:36 PM UTC

Realm (YC S11) Announces $20M Series B, 100M Devices After 9 Months
realm.io

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Post by pierotofy » Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 4:21 PM UTC

Congratulations on the funding. But the "the 2nd-most deployed database in the world in less than a year" is a little... I don't know. If a popular app decides to use your database, shouldn't you count that as 1 installation instead of taking the number of people that will download the popular app? The comparison doesn't seem fair for non-mobile databases. I would rewrite it as "the 2nd-most deployed mobile database in the world in less than a year".

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Post by infofarmer » Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 4:36 PM UTC

Love their «pricing» page! http://realm.io/pricing/

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Post by comrade1 » Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 4:48 PM UTC

infofarmer wrote: post #3

Love their «pricing» page! http://realm.io/pricing/

How do they make money, or plan to make money? Enterprise contracts? Hope to get bought out?

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Post by ph0rque » Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 4:55 PM UTC

comrade1 wrote: post #4

infofarmer wrote: post #3

Love their «pricing» page! http://realm.io/pricing/

How do they make money, or plan to make money? Enterprise contracts? Hope to get bought out?

Says right there:

Realm Inc. already generates revenue by selling additional enterprise products & services around the technology.

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Post by zzzhao » Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 4:57 PM UTC

Congratulations. Anyone in the HN community have experience using Realm that they can share? Would love to hear actual experiences from folks here.

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Post by hobaak » Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 6:19 PM UTC

zzzhao wrote: post #6

Congratulations. Anyone in the HN community have experience using Realm that they can share? Would love to hear actual experiences from folks here.

Here is one. https://medium.com/@rutvijshah/why-i-did-not-choose-realm-io...

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Post by lsb » Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 6:22 PM UTC

So how does the data storage part work? I literally browsed for ten minutes unable to see how the thing stores the data you give it.

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Post by GeneralTspoon » Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 6:39 PM UTC

zzzhao wrote: post #6

Congratulations. Anyone in the HN community have experience using Realm that they can share? Would love to hear actual experiences from folks here.

I've used it in a couple of small Android apps. Overall, I wouldn't recommend it (yet) for anything more than toy projects. The sibling post mentioned a few reasons why, but here's are another few:

No inheritance. No nested transactions. No RxJava support (due to threading issues with Realm). Many annoying random errors (for example, get a row then close the DB connection -> You can't use those results after. Although I believe that this is by design because Realm doesn't cache any data - it queries every time it's requested AFAIK).

It's definitely on the way to being an awesome asset, but it's not there yet!

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Post by easytiger » Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 7:02 PM UTC

lsb wrote: post #8

So how does the data storage part work? I literally browsed for ten minutes unable to see how the thing stores the data you give it.

Its so secret they can't even get it to run on j2jre on any computer.