[DenisM]

Apparently Cloudant is a couch-compatible cloud-scale database. It would be nice if they mentioned this somewhere on their site, especially after having named their product PouchDB.

A question that remains unanswered for me is how do they go about storing the local data in the browser? Do they use local storage? Are there size limits? What's reliability like?

[teleclimber]

As far as I know, cloudant's product is BigCouch which was a fork of CouchDB but has recently been merged back in:

https://blogs.apache.org/couchdb/entry/welcome_bigcouch

[garbados]

Cloudant is a hosted, managed, distributed database as a service. We're based on CouchDB, but then added clustering, then full-text search, and -- coming soon -- geo-indexing :D

BigCouch, and the clustering abilities that we're merging back into CouchDB, are open-source artifacts of the work we do on the core product. The open-source community gave us so much, and we love giving back :D

[teleclimber]

Ah, thanks for clarifying!

And I think it's great that BigCouch is being merged back into CouchDB. I'm just getting interested in CouchDB and PouchDB and it seems these projects deserve the love.

[garbados]

> especially after having named their product PouchDB.

Ah, PouchDB isn't our product. It's just something super awesome that we want to support and promote. In fact, it's built by Dale Harvey, who works at Mozilla.

Disclosure: I'm a developer at Cloudant.

[mullr]

http://pouchdb.com/faq.html addresses many of these questions.