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APIs - Core Services - Core Data
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Architecture Reference
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For a description of the architecture, see :doc:`../Ch-CoreData` 

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Introduction
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EdgeX Foundry Core Data Service includes the device and sensor collected data database and APIs to expose the database to other services as well as north-bound integration. The database is secure. Direct access to the database is restricted to the Core Data service APIs. Core Data also provides the REST API to create and register a new device. 

.. _`Core Data API HTML Documentation`: core-data.html
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https://github.com/edgexfoundry/edgex-go/blob/master/api/raml/core-data.raml

`Core Data API HTML Documentation`_


.. _`Core Data API Swagger Documentation`: https://app.swaggerhub.com/apis-docs/EdgeXFoundry1/core-data/1.1.0
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`Core Data API Swagger Documentation`_