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by strmpnk 4497 days ago
For those interested in the replication side Cloudant and CouchDB, there is some start to documenting the protocol on http://www.replication.io. It's exciting to have more things can seamlessly replicate! Another great example is the PouchDB project (http://pouchdb.com).
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jchrisa 4497 days ago
Couchbase Server is different from Apache CouchDB, etc (different APIs, different use cases, etc). But our mobile database, Couchbase Lite, is sync compatible with the Apache CouchDB ecosystem, and it has a vibrant developer community: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mobile-couchbase

I'm glad Cloudant are sticking with the standard CouchDB sync protocol. Their mobile clients are based on open source code started at Couchbase, so they will be able to connect to all the existing backends, including Couchbase Sync Gateway.

More info about Couchbase Lite and Sync Gateway: http://www.couchbase.com/mobile

This plus PouchDB and the other new entrants, I'd say is one more reason for developers to consider the Couch ecosystem for sync.

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yapcguy 4497 days ago
CouchDB, CouchBase, TouchDB, PouchDB...

How is anyone supposed to figure out who/what to use for the long-term? CouchDB? CouchBase?

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strmpnk 4497 days ago
There is definitely some confusion to the names and efforts there are efforts to ensure there is a clear identity for the CouchDB project moving forward. (Couchbase is not compatible with CouchDB so there will likely always be some confusion there which boils down to historical trivia more than anything.)

TouchDB & PouchDB were some of the earlier projects which extended CouchDB's reach to in-browser and on-mobile databases respectively. In those days the brand confusion problem wasn't as clear. Hopefully in the future all you'll need to know is that the projects support CouchDB replication. Cloudant is a big supporter of the CouchDB community. It made sense to build upon community efforts where they existed already rather than replace them with completely proprietary components.

(Disclosure: I work at Cloudant.)

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yapcguy 4497 days ago
Thanks...

How do I decide between CouchDB and CouchBase?

What are the major technical differences?

Is there a philosophical difference?

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