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Slick vs Android Room: What are the differences?
Developers describe Slick as "Database query and access library for Scala". It is a modern database query and access library for Scala. It allows you to work with stored data almost as if you were using Scala collections while at the same time giving you full control over when a database access happens and which data is transferred. On the other hand, Android Room is detailed as "*Save data in a local database *". It provides an abstraction layer over SQLite to allow fluent database access while harnessing the full power of SQLite. Apps that handle non-trivial amounts of structured data can benefit greatly from persisting that data locally. The most common use case is to cache relevant pieces of data.
Slick and Android Room belong to "Database Tools" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Slick are:
- Seamless data access for your Scala application
- Write Scala code to query your database
- All database entities and queries are statically checked at compile-time
On the other hand, Android Room provides the following key features:
- Provides an abstraction layer over SQLite
- Allows fluent database access while harnessing the full power of SQLite
- Cache relevant pieces of data
Slick is an open source tool with 2.27K GitHub stars and 542 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Slick's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Android Room
- Extensive documentation1
- Pushing bulk data to server easily1
- Easy to understand the transaction of data1