Datastore and Core Data

[Benjamin M. Schwartz]

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I suggest that people interested in datastore design should become
familiar with Apple's "Core Data" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Data).

Core Data is a strongly typed high-level data persistence framework
provided as an operating system service.  Notably, it is in userspace, and
has a variety of backends (including extensible storage backends for
authors whose data is most efficiently stored in a particular way).

It seems to me that a layer like Core Data is distinctly missing from
current Linux-based GUI systems, and is precisely the sort of layer on top
of which the datastore would sit most comfortably.

- --Ben
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