What gives a better efficiency. SimpleCursorAdapter or a normal adapter?

I need to get information that becomes from an external API client and show that information with an adapter. My application must use retrofit to get the info from the API, save it into the database (sqlite) and show it using an adapter. An important think to consider is that I wont use retrofit every time I start my application (maybe I update the database once everyday or everyweek).

The dilemma comes when I dont know if I should use a SimpleCursorAdapter so I cannot directly update the adapter with the info I get from retrofit because I have to download the info, introduce the into the database and extract it from databse to show into adapter; or a normal adapter wich can update the adapter directly when i get the info from retrofit but when I dont want to use retrofit and i want just to get info from database I will have to create objects from the info i get from database to update it.

BTW i'm programming in Android. Thanks for helping!