Are there any GOOD iPhone orms?

Question

I'm traditionally a .NET developer and am spoiled for choice when it comes to ORMs. My flavor of choice is NHibernate but there are a bunch of choices out there.

I was wondering if anyone here uses an ORM when developing for the iPhone and, if so, how do the featuresets compare with that of it's Java and .NET counterparts. I understand my question is somewhat subjective (good can encompass many things) but feature-richness, ease-of-use and performance are my key interests. I know that there are a few out there, but would like to hear from the stackoverflow community in terms of how good they are...

Thanks in advance Jason

Answer 1

I think that Core Data is the ORM of choice for almost all iPhone developers. It's fast, easy to use, and well integrated with the rest of Cocoa.

Answer 2

Apple own Core Data is probably a good choice as it integrates seamlesly with the rest of the SDK.

• Core Data Programming Guide
• Data Modeling Guide
• Core Data Reference for Objective-C

Answer 3

Unless you're going to roll your own special purpose ORM I'd probably stick with CoreData, although I've heard some good things about SQLite Persistent Objects, it's been compared to RoR's ActiveRecord (keep in mind I've never used it myself, I only added here because I've heard a few colleagues talk about it).