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24 alternatives to Realm 1.0

Realm is a mobile database a billion people rely on

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Realm 1.0 launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Realm (YC S11), a mobile database▲188
2014 · realm.io · its alternatives →
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Realm▲168
Realm, Mobile-first database. Build fast apps, faster.
2014 · mongodb.com · its alternatives →
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Realm Mobile Platform▲178
A platform for creating reactive mobile apps effortlessly.
2016 · realm.io · its alternatives →
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Realm React Native▲137
The fastest database for cross platform mobile apps
2016 · mongodb.com · its alternatives →
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Realm Xamarin▲95
The fastest database on Xamarin for reactive mobile apps
2016 · its alternatives →
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Firebase, a scalable real-time backend▲526
Discover Firebase, Google’s mobile and web app development platform that helps developers build apps and games that users will love.
2012 · firebase.com · its alternatives →
7
Firebase▲804
App success made simple by google
2016 · firebase.google.com · its alternatives →
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Realm Mobile Platform Professional Edition▲6
Powerful integrations and event handling
2016 · realm.io · its alternatives →
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Realm▲127
HTML framework for building MVP
2023 · its alternatives →
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InstantDB – A Modern Firebase▲1,145
Hey there HN! We’re Joe and Stopa, and today we’re open sourcing InstantDB, a client-side database that makes it easy to build real-time and collaborative apps like Notion and Figma. Building modern apps these days involves a lot of schleps. For a basic CRUD app you need to spin up servers, wire up endpoints, integrate auth, add permissions, and then marshal data from the backend to the frontend and back again. If you want to deliver a buttery smooth user experience, you’ll need to add optimistic updates and rollbacks. We do these steps over and over for every feature we build, which can…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Realm▲156
All the data you need to navigate owning a house
2021 · myrealm.co · its alternatives →
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Outerbase 2.0▲470
Navigate your data with AI
2024 · its alternatives →
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data.world▲268
The social network for data people
2016 · data.world · its alternatives →
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DBeaver▲130
A free and universal database tool
2018 · dbeaver.io · its alternatives →
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Collections Database▲149
A personal database to organize anything
2024 · collectionsdb.com · its alternatives →
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1.1.1.1 + WARP▲315
The free app that makes your Internet faster.
2019 · one.one.one.one · its alternatives →
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Textdb.dev – simple data sharing for fun projects▲200
2020 · textdb.dev · its alternatives →
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Servant▲94
A simple cloud database for everyone
2014 · its alternatives →
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TerminusDB – An open source in-memory graph database▲231
2020 · terminusdb.com · its alternatives →
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Appbase▲124
The streaming NoSQL database service.
2015 · reactivesearch.io · its alternatives →
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Eden Realm▲10
An App For The Rich ???
2025 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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JSONBase▲118
API based JSON storage
2019 · its alternatives →
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I built a vector database API on Cloudflare▲101
🦉⚡️Serverless, distributed vector database as an API - TimeSurgeLabs/athenadb
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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8base – Ready-to-Rock GraphQL API and Serverless Back End▲84
8base delivers an AI-first solution that simplifies your journey from idea to working software application. | Ask us how.
2019 · 8base.com · its alternatives →

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