| Edge Database | Short description | License / business model | Android / iOS* | Type of data stored | Central Data Sync | P2P Data Sync | Offline Sync (Edge) | Data level encryption | Flutter / Dart support | Vector Database (AI support) | Minimum Footprint size | Company |
| Azure SQL Edge | Designed as a SQL database for the IoT edge; however, due to the footprint it is no Edge Database | Proprietary | No | Relational DB for IoT | No | No | No | will provide encryption | No | No (no on-device vector database, but you can use the cloud) | 500 MB+ | Microsoft |
| Couchbase Mobile / Lite | Embedded / portable database with P2P; pricing upon request; some restrictions apply for the free version | Partly proprietary, partly open-source, Couchbase Lite is BSL 1.1 | Android / iOS | JSON Documents / NoSQL db | Yes | Yes | No | Database encryption with SQLCipher (256-bit AES) | Unofficial Flutter plugin for Couchbase Lite Community Edition | No | < 3,5 MB | Couchbase |
| extremeDB | Embedded relational database | Proprietary | iOS | In-memory relational DB, hybrid persistence | No | No | No | AES encryption | No | No | < 1 MB | McObject LLC |
| InterBase ToGo / IBLite | Embeddable SQL database | Proprietary | Android / iOS | Relational | No | No | No | 256 bit AES strength encryption | No | No | < 1 MB | Embarcadero |
| LevelDB | Portable lightweight key-value store, NoSQL, no index support; benchmarks from 2011 have been removed unfortunately | New BSD | Android / iOS | Key-value pairs / NoSQL db | No | No | No | No | Unofficial client that is very badly rated | No | < 1 MB | LevelDB Team |
| LiteDB | A .Net embedded NoSQL database | MIT license | Android / iOS (with Xamarin only) | NoSQL document store, fully wirtten in .Net | No | No | No | Salted AES | No | No | < 1 MB | LiteDB team |
| Mongo Realm DB | Embedded object database | SSPL | Android / iOS | Object Database | deprecated | No | deprecated | Yes | Yes | No | 5 MB+ | Realm DB acquired in 2019 by MongoDB, deprecated Data Sync in 2024 |
| ObjectBox | NoSQL Edge Database and on-device vector database with out-of-the-box Data Sync for Mobile and IoT; benchmarks available as open source | Open Core (plus Apache 2.0 bindings) | Android / iOS / Linux / Windows / any POSIX | Object-oriented NoSQL edge database for high-performance on edge devices in Mobile and IoT | Yes | WIP | Yes | transport encryption; additional encryption upon request | Yes | First local vector database fo on-device Edge AI released May 2024 | < 1 MB | ObjectBox |
| Oracle Database Lite | Portable with P2P and central sync support as well as support for sync with SQLite | Proprietary | Android / iOS | Relational | Yes | Yes | No | 128-bit AES Standard encrytion | No | No | < 1 MB | Oracle Corporation |
| redis DB | High-performance in-memory Key Value store with optional durability | Three clause BSD license, RSAL and Proprietary | No | K/V in-memory store, typically used as cache | No | No | No | TLS/SSL-based encryption can be enabled for data in motion. | Unofficial redis Dart client available | No on-device vector database, but you can use the cloud | An empty instance uses ~ 3MB of memory | redislabs (the original author of redis left in 2020) |
| SQL Anywhere | Embedded / portable database with central snyc support with a stationary database, pricing now available here | Proprietary | Android / iOS | Relational | Yes, tied to using other SAP tech though (we believe) | No | No | AES-FIPS cipher encryption for full database or selected tables | No | No | SAP (originally Sybase) | |
| SQLite | C programming library; high market share in the small devices space | Public domain | embedded on iOS and Android | Relational | No | No | No | No, but option to use SQLCipher to encrypt SQLite | Flutter plugins (ORMs) for SQLite, but nothing from Hwaci | No, but various early & unofficial extensions are available | < 1 MB | Hwaci |
| UnQLite | Portable lightweight embedded db; self-contained C library without dependency. | 2-Clause BSD | Android / iOS | Key-value pairs / JSON store / NoSQL db | No | No | No | 128-bit or 256-bit AES standard encryption | No | No | ~ 1.5 MB | Symisc systems |