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by lightblade 4189 days ago
Well this is my opinion.

I always thought CouchDB offers a great RESTful interface to communicate with their database. CouchDB also offers great multi-master replication, this also includes your local data.

There is a JavaScript implementation of CouchDB's data sync called PouchDB. I always thought it would be a great idea to just use CouchDB as your API layer. Anything your backend needs to do goes through Couch first and get synced to the client through Pouch.

I haven't experimented on the idea yet, but maybe you can take it further.
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dcassiano 4189 days ago
Do you know Meteor - http://www.meteor.com ? I think your idea is a quite similar to what Meteor does with MongoDB. This is actually our 1st choice for now, but we are not closed yet.
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lightblade 4189 days ago
Yes, but my problem with meteor is that it's a whole package rather than pieces that I can just take what I need.
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dcassiano 4189 days ago
Makes sense. Thanks for your thoughts!
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