What is CoreData?
It is an object graph and persistence framework provided by Apple in the macOS and iOS operating systems. It allows data organized by the relational entity–attribute model to be serialized into XML, binary, or SQLite stores. It provides generalized and automated solutions to common tasks associated with object life cycle and object graph management, including persistence.
CoreData is a tool in the Object Relational Mapper (ORM) category of a tech stack.
Who uses CoreData?
Companies
17 companies reportedly use CoreData in their tech stacks, including Avito, Biting Bit, and Chicisimo.
Developers
45 developers on StackShare have stated that they use CoreData.
CoreData Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to CoreData?
Realm
The Realm Mobile Platform is a next-generation data layer for applications. Realm is reactive, concurrent, and lightweight, allowing you to work with live, native objects.
MySQL
The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.
MongoDB
MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.
Redis
Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.
