On Jul 3, 2008, at 09:25, Anthony Waddell wrote:
Thanks for the response
I guess I can handle security of the database by putting some kind of
lock on on the memory stick, or the entire app, but what about
replication. I understand it now replicates on port 80:
- is it robust?
It is robust, but it could be faster than it is now.
- Any ideas how could I encrypt the transmission over public access
networks?
A VPN, an ssh tunnel or, if you can set it up, use https.
Cheers
Jan
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Regards
Anthony
2008/7/2 Jan Lehnardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hi Anthony,
On Jul 2, 2008, at 10:53, Anthony Waddell wrote:
Greetings
I was about to start developing an app that is to be used in various
remote rural areas with little/no internet connectivity. The data
generated in these sites needs to be replicated back to a central
database. I was going to do it in Notes/Domino, running the app
on a
memory stick that could then be taken by the remote worker to their
nearest town, zapped into a workstation with internet access, and so
replicated to the central server. Now I'm wondering if I should
do it
in Couchdb instead?
The scenario you describe is the exact kind of which CouchDB was
designed to handle.
Some questions:
- can it run an instance (programme and data) on a memory stick?
Yeah. A simple example is the just-released binary package for
MacOS X I threw together:
http://jan.prima.de/~jan/plok/archives/142-CouchDBX-Revival.html
This is obviously Mac-only, but equally possible to do for other
platforms.
- does this sound feasible in this environment?
- Is Couchdb ready for showtime in an environment like this. I need
to feel confident that these isolated offices that are a long way
from
any help are going to get a robust solution
Maybe not yet fo your purposes. CouchDB does not have a sense
of security (it will, though). So you'd need to write a small
proxy application that would do authentication and whatever else
you need. I guess you don't want to open each local instance to
everybody for replication :)
With large views, we are still missing database compaction, but
that won't be much of a problem with small data sets or small
views.
(P.S. Newbie....so apologies in advance if this is the wrong forum)
This is the exact right place to discuss this :) Feel free to send in
any follow-up questions you might have. And have a look at
our documentation: http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/
Cheers
Jan
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