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Posted by Gary Luce
Gary Luce
7,153 Points

Parse Local Datastore and Core Data

Hello,

Parse now offers Local Datastore. Do you think it is as good as Core Data? What are it's shortcomings? I have not tested it yet.

Gary

2 Answers

Sebastien Thomas
Sebastien Thomas
16,502 Points

Hi Gary,

Parse Local Datastore is great news. So far, for those of us who have been using Parse as a backend and then Core Data within our app, we've had to create a bridge - writing a lot of code - to get the data and store it within Core Data. Even more code if we wanted to then sync our local data back to Parse !

We have 2 apps in development using Parse Local Datastore so I'll keep everyone posted if we encounter any issues.

Gary Luce
Gary Luce
7,153 Points
Gary Luce
Gary Luce
7,153 Points

Thanks Sebastien! I guess that answers my question: if you use both Core Data and Parse in the same project than I guess Local Datastore is not a replacement for Core Data.

Gary