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broderix
broderix

Reputation: 389

Make realm.io db file on a linux server

I need to store on a mobile device (iOS/Android) more that 100k records with several tables (many-to-many relations). Right now I store them in sqlite/CoreData. The sync process is slow (http->json->db). I want to use realm and pre-populate realm db file on a server (http->db).

Questions:

1) Is realm db file binary compatible among platforms?

2) Can I make realm db file on a linux server? Which realm-SDK should I use?

I wish realm developers read this!

UPDATE:

found related thread How can I ensure Realm schema is identical across Android and iOS?

so, I can answer for myself:

1) "The realm documentation says that Realm files are cross platform." https://realm.io/docs/swift/latest/#finding-a-realm-file

2) "The Realm browser can generate Models from existing Realm files in multiple languages." You can use realm-cocoa and build your tool on linux server, apt-get install gcc gobjc gnustep-devel

Upvotes: 2

Views: 736

Answers (1)

marius
marius

Reputation: 7806

Update #2

We released the Node.js SDK, which can be used on the server-side to access Realms.

This however doesn't include the new synchronization capabilities though. Server-side access to synced Realms remains exclusive to the Enterprise Edition of the Realm Mobile Platform.

Update

We released the Realm Mobile Platform. You can use this to real-time synchronize Realm files served via the Realm Object Server, over a custom protocol on top of HTTP which will only transmit the deltas.

For the Enterprise Edition of the Realm Mobile Platform, we offer a Node.js binding, which can be used for server-side access.

Realm's Core is now open-source.

Original Answer

There isn't really a suitable binding for servers yet - not if you don't want to run an OS X machine. I don't know about experiences with building Realm's Objective-C binding on GNUstep's alternative FoundationKit implementation, but you will likely run into issues, where it will be hard to assist you, because that's a completely untested configuration.

Note though that this is generally an issue, we're investigating. We're not yet at the point, where we can expose an official C++ binding / a public API of the underlying Core, which is the shared codebase between Cocoa and Java.

Upvotes: 3

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