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CouchDB Simple hosted JSON DB for mobile and js apps

CouchDB Simple hosted JSON/REST DB for mobile/.js apps

http://cloudant.com offers free hosting of CouchDB instances which are trivial to get started with and provides a decent REST interface from which one can replace with other technology later without eating too many camels. Pros: - Quick setup for JSON/HTTP DB POC's - REST - JSON/HTTP - Nice admin web-GUI - Good documentation - Much easier setting up and using from client side than MongoDB - Bundles Lucene for search in documents - Easy tutorial for setting up nice url's for accessing json documents here Example of my usage

Cons:

  • You'll probably use a different setup/tech stack in later iterations