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by thinkloop 3151 days ago
I was curious about the answer myself, and bumped into kinto: http://kinto.readthedocs.io/en/latest/overview.html

- Build collaborative applications with real time updates and fine-grained permissions.

- Our JavaScript client for browsers leverages IndexedDB to work completely offline and synchronise data when online.

- It’s even possible for data to be encrypted on the client to keep user data safe on the server.

- Permissions can be set on the stored objects, making it possible to share data between users.

- Kinto is an HTTP API in front of a database. Interactions with the server are simple HTTP requests rather than complex SQL or map-reduce queries. It is meant to be minimalist and simple.

This would be a self-hosted solution. They have a pre-built docker image to spin it up.

Previous HN links:

- 641 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10994736

- 687 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10733164

2 comments

Looks like Kinto uses PostgreSQL as the backend (http://docs.kinto-storage.org/en/stable/configuration/produc...). This was a little buried in the web docs and website.
I've look at that as well, but "scaling production" in 2017 roadmap worries me.

https://github.com/Kinto/kinto/wiki/Roadmap