Is there an ORM framework for Cocoa, or a framework that accomplishes a similar goal using a different technique?

Question

I\'m developing an application that needs to store lots of records in an organized way. Specifically, I\'m writing a personal finance app. As you can imagine, this app will

Answer 1

Is there an ORM for Cocoa? I'm looking for something like Django's ORM layer, or Rails' ActiveRecord. (I only need it to connect to SQLite databases, though.)

Technically, no.

Or should I just use CoreData for this? Will it fit my needs well?

You can try, but CoreData is not likely a good fit. CoreData has some ORM like features, but is not really an ORM.

Or am I barking up the wrong tree, and should be looking at another framework that accomplishes my goals with a different technique?

There are alternatives, but nothing that approaches a native Cocoa ORM. One such option is to use a Java ORM like Hibernate which you then call from your Cocoa code.

In reality, you don't need an ORM. You could build a simplistic ORM yourself on top of the OSX SQLLite framework. If you then open sourced your simplistic ORM, this question would have a better answer. :)