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The main reason most people use CouchDB is because of the HTTP API and offline support with Couchbase Mobile and PouchDB. Doesn't CouchDB have most of those things already from 2.3?

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I don't think couchbase has couchdb in mind for the mobile client anymore

Correct. The newest version of CouchBase mobile no longer supports CouchDB as a replication target. It can still be accomplish with the CouchBase Sync Gateway, but get complicated quickly.

I evaluated Couchbase mobile about a year ago and found although it worked well once setup there was a lot of overhead and the docs seemed a little all over the place and the fact that you can't also use the same DB on the web anymore with PouchDB meant I ultimately dropped it. It's a shame because there isn't really anything open source / self hosted like it for mobile.

MongoDB recently bought Realm which is an amazing mobile database with first class replication, so if I was starting a new project that also needs mobile I would definitely go with MongoDB.

Especially if you, jinjin2, are either a bot, or marketing shim??

I just verified every single post of you on hackers news in last 12 months, and every one, in different DB discussions are doing the some shamefull plug about Realm.

E v e r y o n e.

And not a single disclaimer from you, not to mention some of your posts (like here, what janl pointed) are simply not true.

Disgracefull. I'm leaving this comment for anybody in the future doing check on you to notice this.

last time I looked, realm did “last write wins” “conflict resolution”, which is just marketing speech for “randomly losing customer data”, which is something CouchDB decidedly works very hard to never ever do ;)

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