Couchbase Lite is an embedded lightweight, document-oriented (NoSQL), syncable database engine.
Couchbase Lite implementation is on top of Couchbase Lite Core, which is also a new cross-platform implementation of database CRUD and query features, as well as document versioning.
- Xcode 26.4+
- iOS 15.0+
- macOS 13.0+
dependencies: [
.package(name: "CouchbaseLiteSwift",
url: "https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-lite-swift.git",
from: "4.0.0"),
],
dependencies: [
.package(name: "CouchbaseLiteSwift",
url: "https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-lite-swift-ee.git",
from: "4.0.0"),
],
More detailed information on how to setup is available here: swift package manager
Swift Package Manager is the recommended installation method for new projects. CocoaPods remains supported; add the pod that matches the API and edition you want to your Podfile:
| API | Community Edition | Enterprise Edition |
|---|---|---|
| Objective-C | CouchbaseLite |
CouchbaseLite-Enterprise |
| Swift | CouchbaseLite-Swift |
CouchbaseLite-Swift-Enterprise |
target '<your target name>' do
use_frameworks!
pod 'CouchbaseLite-Swift'
end
- Clone the repo and update submodules
$ git clone https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-lite-ios.git
$ cd couchbase-lite-ios
$ git submodule update --init --recursive
- Run ./Scripts/build_xcframework.sh to build an XCFramework for either Swift or Objective-C API.
# For building the Swift XCFramework
$ ./Scripts/build_xcframework.sh -s CBL_Swift -o output
# For building the ObjC XCFramework
$ ./Scripts/build_xcframework.sh -s CBL_ObjC -o output
Like all Couchbase source code, this is released under the Apache 2 license.