We hit similar problems with Core Data for http://clothapp.com and ended up migrating to Realm (http://realm.io) last month. Been pretty happy with it so far.
Making News Feed nearly 50% faster on iOS
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#32Interesting article, but worth pointing out that core data is not an ORM, but an object graph with facilities for persistence.
You're right about this. My terminology was incorrect.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Only loosely. And I don't believe EOF predates table views either.
Okay, but I"m still not buying that Core Data had no design goals beyond backing store for table views.
Oh yes, I certainly wouldn't try to argue with that. In classic Apple fashion, they seem to try to sell it as the solution for all things data storage.
Re: Making News Feed nearly 50% faster on iOS
#35I really hope Apple will come up with a modern alternative to Core Data; it's neat and all, but it just doesn't feel like it's a good match for most situations. In my own anecdote, we had to show a list of autocompletion items - simple enough. Read XML, write a few hundred entries to a Core Data storage - and this list was relatively static, updated only once a week. A week after release, we got crash reports - the X…
> I really hope Apple will come up with a modern alternative to Core Data; it's neat and all, but it just doesn't feel like it's a good match for most situations.
This pretty much seems to be the aim of the (non-Apple) http://realm.io/