Fast & Secure NoSQL Database — Hive for Flutter

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Hive is a lightweight and fast NoSQL db for flutter. It’s a popular and frequently updating package that we can use as a local data storage in our flutter apps. It provides a cool documentation and set of useful extension packages as well.

Hive is inspired by Bitcask. Bitcask provides an API for storing and retrieving key/value data into a log-structured hash table.

Strengths of BitCask

• Low latency for read and write
• High throughput, especially when writing an incoming stream of random items
• Single seek to retrieve any value
• Fast, bounded crash recovery
• Easy backup

So hive has great features like ..

• Cross platform: mobile, desktop, browser
• Great performance
• Simple, powerful, & intuitive API
• Strong encryption built in
• NO native dependencies

Installation and import

dependencies:
  hive: latest_version

import 'package:hive/hive.dart';

Extension packages

• hive_flutter
• hive_generator