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