> On May 5, 2015, at 2:31 PM, davel...@mac.com wrote: > > I'm looking into options for building an iOS and Mac app that can sync/share > Core Data between them. I'm well aware of the issues with Core Data iCloud > syncing in iOS 5 and 6 and that it is supposedly better so I'm willing to try > it.
I wouldn't recommend it. The sync mechanism for Core Data is IMHO a terrible kludge, and you have zero visibility into the server-side storage nor any ability to diagnose server-side problems. I still see user complaints in reviews of apps that use iCloud sync (Ulysses is one recent example.) On the other hand, I'm biased because I work on a competing sync solution, Couchbase Lite*. It's designed from the ground up to do sync, you can run your own server, it supports multi-user sharing, and it's all open source. It has its own Cocoa API, but you can also use it as a back-end for Core Data. Another solution to look into is Parse**. It's apparently pretty fast and reliable, although as a hosted service you don't have control over the servers (and you have to trust Facebook to play nice with your data.) Dropbox has a data-sync API, but they just announced that they're deprecating it and phasing it out. —Jens * http://www.couchbase.com/nosql-databases/couchbase-mobile <http://www.couchbase.com/nosql-databases/couchbase-mobile> ** http://parse.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
