Edge Database | Android / iOS* | Type of data stored | Sync Central | Sync P2P | Offline Sync | Data level encryption | License / business model | Flutter support | Vector (AI) support | Short description | Minimum Footprint size | Company |
Azure SQL Edge | No | Relational DB for IoT | No | No | No | will provide encryption | Proprietary | No | No | Designed as a SQL database for the IoT edge; however, due to the footprint it is no Edge Database | 500 MB+ | Microsoft |
Couchbase Mobile | Android / iOS | JSON Documents / NoSQL db | Yes | Yes | No | Database encryption with SQLCipher (256-bit AES) | Partly proprietary, partly open-source, Couchbase Lite is BSL 1.1 | Unofficial Flutter plugin for Couchbase Lite Community Edition | No | Embedded / portable database with P2P and central synchronization (sync) support; pricing upon request; some restrictions apply for the free version. Secure SSL. | < 3,5 MB | Couchbase |
extremeDB | iOS | In-memory relational DB, hybrid persistence | No | No | No | AES encryption | Proprietary | No | Yes, vector support available, nothing more yet | Embedded relational database | < 1 MB | McObject LLC |
InterBase ToGo / IBLite | Android / iOS | Relational | No | No | No | 256 bit AES strength encryption | Proprietary | No | No | Embeddable SQL database. | < 1 MB | Embarcadero |
LevelDB | Android / iOS | Key-value pairs / NoSQL db | No | No | No | No | New BSD | Unofficial client that is very badly rated | No | Portable lightweight key-value store, NoSQL, no index support; benchmarks from 2011 have been removed unfortunately | < 1 MB | LevelDB Team |
LiteDB | Android / iOS (with Xamarin only) | NoSQL document store, fully wirtten in .Net | No | No | No | Salted AES | MIT license | No | No | A .Net embedded NoSQL database | < 1 MB | LiteDB team |
Mongo Realm / Realm DB (acquired by Mongo in 2019) | Android / iOS | Object Database | Yes (Mongo Atlas), tied to using Mongo DB | No | No | Yes | Mongo Realm is Apache 2.0, Mongo DB is SSPL, Mongo Atlas (?) | Officially released a Flutter binding in spring 2023 (See Flutter databases) | No | Embedded object database | 5 MB+ | MongoDB Inc. |
ObjectBox | 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 | Apache 2.0 and Proprietary | Yes | Yes, vector support already available, more AI support coming | High-performance NoSQL Edge Database with out-of-the-box Data Sync for Mobile and IoT; fully ACID compliant; benchmarks available. | < 1 MB | ObjectBox |
Oracle Database Lite | Android / iOS | Relational | Yes | Yes | No | 128-bit AES Standard encrytion | Proprietary | No | No | Portable with P2P and central sync support as well as support for sync with SQLite | < 1 MB | Oracle Corporation |
redis DB | No | K/V in-memory store, typically used as cache | No | No | No | TLS/SSL-based encryption can be enabled for data in motion. | Three clause BSD license, RSAL and Proprietary | Unofficial redis Dart client available | Yes | High-performance in-memory Key Value store with optional durability | An empty instance uses ~ 3MB of memory | redislabs (the original author of redis left in 2020) |
SQL Anywhere | 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 | Proprietary | No | No | Embedded / portable database with central snyc support with a stationary database, pricing now available here | SAP (originally Sybase) | |
SQLite | embedded on iOS and Android | Relational | No | No | No | No, Use SQLCipher to encrypt SQLite | Public domain | Flutter plugins (ORMs) for SQLite, but nothing from Hwaci | No, but various unofficial extensions are available | C programming library; probably still 90% market share in the small devices space (personal assumption) | < 1 MB | Hwaci |
UnQLite | Android / iOS | Key-value pairs / JSON store / NoSQL db | No | No | No | 128-bit or 256-bit AES standard encryption | 2-Clause BSD | not yet; might be coming though; there was a 0.0.1 released some time ago | No | Portable lightweight embedded db; self-contained C library without dependency. | ~ 1.5 MB | Symisc systems |