Databases for Mobile Apps: React Native & Realm | React Universe On Air #25
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The Differences Between MongoDB and Realm
Realm is actually a local database on your phone. So it's basically only just handling that single user at one time. And also between the two differences, how you access the data, like in MongoDB, you use queries to get some JSON back where as Realm is integrated within your language,. It's an object store. They look like JavaScript objects, but they're actually Realm objects. If you access them, it's actually running C++ code that we handcrafted. so it's super performant, super fast. You all really feel like you're working with a database, it just feels like you're worked with native data structures.
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