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
16 companies reportedly use CoreData in their tech stacks, including Avito, Runtastic, and Biting Bit.
Developers
41 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.
Hibernate
Hibernate is a suite of open source projects around domain models. The flagship project is Hibernate ORM, the Object Relational Mapper.
Sequelize
Sequelize is a promise-based ORM for Node.js and io.js. It supports the dialects PostgreSQL, MySQL,
MariaDB, SQLite and MSSQL and features solid transaction support, relations, read replication and
more.
SQLAlchemy
SQLAlchemy is the Python SQL toolkit and Object Relational Mapper that gives application developers the full power and flexibility of SQL.
Entity Framework
It is an object-relational mapper that enables .NET developers to work with relational data using domain-specific objects. It eliminates the need for most of the data-access code that developers usually need to write.
