Re: Opinion: Core Data or roll my own?
Re: Opinion: Core Data or roll my own?
- Subject: Re: Opinion: Core Data or roll my own?
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 07:49:16 -0700
On Apr 8, 2014, at 10:07 PM, Rick Mann <email@hidden> wrote:
> Well, if I were to do this, one of the reasons would be to create a text representation that could be easily diffed. I took a look at Core Data's XML format, and while necessarily verbose, it would work pretty well, until the schema changed.
You can always write some code to export the database to XML for such purposes.
But for regular storage, SQLite, or even a binary-format flat file, is going to be a lot more efficient than XML. (Assuming you have a large data set.)
—Jens
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