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Mobile app usage is increasing worldwide, not only in user volume, but in daily time spent on apps. https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/03/mobile-users-now-spend-4-5-hours-per-day-in-apps-report-says that mobile users now spend between four and five hours — roughly a third of waking hours — on smartphone apps daily.

Because of internet dependencies, the cloud database model presents challenges in meeting mobile app users’ expectations.

The mobile database model is a merging of the cloud and embedded database models, combining the best aspects of each into an architecture that powers offline-first apps impervious to internet slowness and outages. The model consists of a central cloud database and an embedded database running on mobile clients that share data via automatic synchronization — the embedded databases sync data between the cloud database and other embedded devices as it is captured or modified.