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I've been trying Realm for Xamarin recently and I've got to say I'm pretty disappointed with it, compared to my previous experiences with EF. My complaints are

I've been trying Realm for Xamarin recently and I've got to say I'm pretty disappointed with it, compared to my previous experiences with EF. My complaints are as follows: - No enum support - No inheritance support - Many LINQ operations aren't implemented, no select, no aggregate, etc. I have to do a ToList or ToArray to use these operations. And that was just what came up in the first day of usage... Why would I use Realm if EF7 gets SQLite Code First+Xamarin support and can do all of these things? Sure, it's faster, but faster doesn't matter if I'm not speed critical on my DB (most mobile apps aren't) and I can write cleaner code. It might be better than manually writing SQL queries, but it's a lot worse than existing ORM solutions.

kristiandupont 10y ago
The Xamarin product is the youngest in the family (and, not officially 1.0 like the others) so we obviously have a lot to do still. :-) Your complaints are noted and are more or less all in the pipeline. Our goal is definitely that you should be able to write cleaner as well as faster code than you would with EF. Thank you for your feedback!
brmunk 10y ago
Xamarin has been highly requested, so we have tried to make it available as quickly as possible as a pre-1.0 version to get the proper input from developers like yourself as to what should be prioritized. Love to keep getting your feedback on github as well. Thanks!