I'm trying to understand the terminology around forward vs backward references in CloudKit. Say I have two record types: User LeaderboardScore (a score belongs to a user) The score record stores a user reference: score["user"] = CKRecord.Reference( recordID: userRecordID, action: .deleteSelf ) So: LeaderboardScore → User The user record does not store any references to scores From a data-model perspective: Is this considered a forward reference (child → parent)? Or a back reference, since the score is "pointing back" to its owner? My use case is having leaderboard in my app and so i have created a user table to store all the users and a score table for saving the scores of each user of the app.