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I'm not sure I'd call this a Core Data alternative, as it seems closer to a few convenience methods around SQLite. I'd imagine that using this for presenting data in any kind of table view (a typical use for a local data store) could be extremely frustrating as it wouldn't do any of the progressive loading, caching or change notification that Core Data gives you. Core Data can be a pain to work with, but when you do it right, it has some extremely nice features - stuff that you absolutely need in a performant, stable app that handles data at a scale of anything more than a few dozen records. Also, looks like we've got some cat references (from the demo) in the library's own code, so I'm not sure whether the demo was created to demonstrate the library, or the library was a rushed abstraction of the cat project :) Edit: https://github.com/z