Why is Realm so fast compared to SQLite?
I have seen the benchmarks on the Realm website , how come Realm is so fast compared to SQLite, which has a long development history, being released back in 2000? I was wondering if someone with knowledge could share some general techniques that Realm uses underneath the hood in the database layer? As of March, 2016, only the bindings are open-sourced and the db layer is still closed off. The Realm blog has great technical talks on the subject, but there was no single repository that goes into depth about the reasons behind its performance. This post is an effort to condense the videos and