Core Data VS Sqlite or FMDB…?

Question

Now this might look like a duplicate thread, but my question is that I have read a lot of questions like.. Core Data vs SQLite 3 and others but these are 2-3 years old. I ha

Answer 1

CoreData is not just an abstraction of an SQL database. CoreData is also does object graph management. CoreData can do things that FMDB simply can't do.

As always: It really depends on your use case. But in 99% of cases CoreData is the right choice.

If performance is critical, you still have to understand how a database works. But CoreData can deliver that performance if you use it the right way. But it takes some time to learn. There are many things that are trivial to do in CoreData that would be very complex to do in FMDB.