Open Source DB for Web Apps that Syncs

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45 points·akrymski··4 comments

I've been involved with, http://pouchdb.com, a similar project that replicates (aka syncs) with couchdb, vs this which implements master master replications (aka bidirectional syncing) with ... anything?

I suspect this doesnt handle conflict resolution, which the key differentiator between Couch / Pouch and other sync solutions I see, its something thats hard to do nicely without in built support on the server side, and since this syncs with 3rd party servers.

However a lot of use cases are happy to trade last write wins with a simpified model, As mentioned in Vancouver I actually wish I had used a simple model for Pouch (that still included conflicts, future project).

But knowing how hard it is to get a cross browser syncing solution working, this from the outset seems amazing (close to to good to be true), its quite hard to understand the focus / specific use case because there is so much information about transactions / query models / syncing etc, but great job to the author, I am going to take a look at this and try to understand it a bit more, excited to see more people focusing on the same problems as Pouch

We are currently evaluating http://www.breezejs.com/ as a general entity framework that can also do sync. This one seem to be a bit more low level, but probably a lot simpler to integrate.

Nice! But why login with google to download a custom version?

Hope to find it soon on some CDNs.

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