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Do you use your own data synchronization solution? It seems to difficult to do it right. We love Realm but we eventually choose couchbase because of its out of the box sync solution. I hope Realm consider this feature as most mobile developers all have to think about this problem.

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Do you mean from server to client?

this is handled by the applications code, which inserts data primarily from a rest api into realm in a background thread. Not all data comes from rest however, some from apns or xmpp, depending on application state and the particular data.

Syncing is hard to get right. If realm offered it I would consider but I would not want them to do that at the sacrifice of making their product as solid as it is.

How does couch handle it? Does it have push and poll type of hooks?

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