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title: "Databases used in iOS"  
description: "Databases used in iOS"  
author: "Tarun Kumar"  
published: 2015-11-17  
updated: 2020-09-23  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/22903/databases-used-in-ios  
category: "iphone"  
tags: ["iphone", "ios", "objective c"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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# Databases used in iOS

**These are most important databases that we can use for our app:**\
- SQLite: is a relational database management system contained in a C programming library, it is not a client-server database engine, it is embedded into the end program.\
- Plist: it is an structured text file that contains essential configuration information for a bundled executable. (plist means: property list)\
- Xml: it is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format which is both human-readable and machine-readable.\
- Core Data: it is a framwork that we use to manage the model layer objects in our applications.\
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## Answers

### Answer by Tarun Kumar

**These are most important databases that we can use for our app:**\
- SQLite: is a relational database management system contained in a C programming library, it is not a client-server database engine, it is embedded into the end program.\
- Plist: it is an structured text file that contains essential configuration information for a bundled executable. (plist means: property list)\
- Xml: it is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format which is both human-readable and machine-readable.\
- Core Data: it is a framwork that we use to manage the model layer objects in our applications.\
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