[jonahx]

Thank you! So in theory one could do the same thing writing your own threads and using vanilla local storage? But realm is removing all the boilerplate custom code you'd have to write yourself, and making the local side more performant than custom code would be? Is that it in a nutshell?

[timanglade]

Yes, that’s the spirit, although I’m sure others would tell you that using Core Data across threads and at high throughput it much easier said than done :) You can achieve anything with almost any storage technology — we just try to let you do it well, easily and in a very performant & maintainable way.

[brmunk]

"You can achieve anything with almost any storage technology" - is actually being very generous to quite a few other technologies :-) One of the promising benefits of any technology that can make things run magnitudes faster, is actually that you can do totally new things you previous thought impossible.