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Working with Core Data

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Core Data is a framework that allows you to maintain an ordered data store for either in-memory or permanent storage. It is akin to a database, but it’s not a database in a traditional sense, it’s not a relational database management system (RDBMS). Core Data can use a traditional database as a lower layer for external storage; SQLite is one of the storage mechanisms it supports.

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Malik, W. (2015). Working with Core Data. In: Learn Swift 2 on the Mac. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1627-9_21

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