[andkon]

I think you're misunderstanding what "Native Models" means in the context of iOS work. Saying that a database uses JSON immediately, to many ios devs, recalls years of writing very fragile json serialization code. Looking through CouchDB's iOS example apps confirms that yes, basically everything that isn't a string or int has to be serialized into JSON. That's a pretty enormous annoyance, and incorporates a lot of additional cognitive overhead when dealing with data that Realm simply handles properly for iOS from the beginning.

I'm deeply relieved to see that they're launching something that does something about the fragile ios architectures built around JSON. It's similar to what they did with their mobile database: they actually listened to what mobile devs found annoying, and then they built something that completely sidestepped all the fragility problems that emerge when you wrap sqlite with an ORM. Instead, they made an approach that fit within our workflow, as opposed to taking us further from it.

[ramses0]

Ahhh, got it. When I hear "offline-first" my mind's been in webdev-mobile, not appstore-mobile. Thanks for clarifying!

[janl]

CouchDB doesn't have any iOS code, are you perhaps referring to Couchbase?

[andkon]

Ohhh my god, you're totally right. I was looking at this: https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-lite-ios