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Paper is an embedded object-oriented storage engine on Android with automatic schema migration support. It is designed for Java and Kotlin to quickly manage object storage without using SQL-like queries.

Source Code
https://github.com/pilgr/Paper[01]
Developer
Country of Origin
SE
Start Year
2015 [05]
End Year
2023
Project Type
Open Source
Written in
Java
Supported Languages
Java, Kotlin
Operating System
Android
License
Apache v2

Database Entry

Paper


Paper is an embedded object-oriented storage engine on Android with automatic schema migration support. It is designed for Java and Kotlin to quickly manage object storage without using SQL-like queries.

History


Paper was created in Sweden in 2015. The main contributor is Oleksii Masnyi (Aleksey Masny), an android software developer. It was initially developed to be used in AppDialer, a smart phone application for searching other apps. The system was mainly developed between 2015 and 2017. The first version was released with main object-oriented structure, and newer versions were later released with major updates in methods, data format and custom APIs.

Checkpoints


Concurrency Control[02]


Paper uses concurrent hash map and semaphore to deal with multi-thread reading and writing for single operation, but no concurrency control protocol is being used to protect transactions.

Data Model[03]


Paper uses custom strings as keys, and objects as values, which is a combination of key/value data model and object-oriented data model.

Foreign Keys


Indexes


Paper uses Java concurrent hash maps to store objects.

Joins


Logging


Query Compilation


Query Interface


Storage Model


Storage Organization[04]


Paper maintains backup files when performing writing. When writing is done successfully, backup file is deleted.

Stored Procedures


System Architecture


Paper is a database system designed for Android.

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