Datastore and Core Data

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 7:03 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
<bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
>  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.

I'm a bit confused about how you see something like Core Data helping
us with the Datastore. Can you elaborate a bit on this?

Thanks,

Tomeu