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Core Data in Swift
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Core Data in Swift

by Marcus S. Zarra
June 2016
Intermediate to advanced
214 pages
5h 40m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Persistent Store Types

Four types of repositories are included with the Core Data API: SQLite, XML, binary, and in-memory. (XML is available only on OS X, not on iOS.) In-memory is technically not a persistent store because it’s never written out to disk. Binary is effectively a serialized version of the object graph written out to disk. The XML store writes out the object graph to a human-readable text file, and SQLite stores the object graph in a relational database. When working with an iOS project, you’ll typically just use SQLite unless you have a specific reason to use one of the other store formats.

Atomic Stores

Atomic stores include XML, binary, and custom data stores. All of these stores are written to disk atomically; in other words, ...

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