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title: "What is Core Data?"  
description: "What is Core Data?"  
author: "Sunil Singh"  
published: 2015-04-27  
updated: 2020-09-20  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/2446/what-is-core-data  
category: "iphone"  
tags: ["iphone", "ios", "ipad"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is Core Data?

Core Data is a framework that manages an object graph.\
It is used to store data from your iPhone application into a Sqlite file which is present in the document directory of your application. \
Core Data is not a relational database, you can see Core data as a wrapper around Sqlite although core data is quite simpler as compared to Sqlite but it does not offer some of the functionality that Sqlite can offer and vice versa.

## Answers

### Answer by Sunil Singh

Core Data is a framework that manages an object graph.\
It is used to store data from your iPhone application into a Sqlite file which is present in the document directory of your application. \
Core Data is not a relational database, you can see Core data as a wrapper around Sqlite although core data is quite simpler as compared to Sqlite but it does not offer some of the functionality that Sqlite can offer and vice versa.


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