Mark, The benefit of PouchDB is that it can be installed using NPM, or packaged into something like BobEXE without having to do a system-wide installation. For a local installation PouchDB is much easier to set up than MySQL/MariaDb. If you didn't go the packaged route like BobEXE it would at worst be cloning a repo and typing `npm install` to install the node dependencies. Then you don't have to worry about setting up users or anything on the databases, it is all self-contained.
It is as easy to set up as sqlite, and if there are any MySQL/MariaDB servers that are that easy to set up I would very much like to know because every time I set up a database I forget how to do it and I have to look up how to set up new users and permissions all over again. On a remote server it would be at most one extra command when installing node and tiddlywiki, and that is only if we don't have an install script set up. If you want something larger on a remote server, CouchDB has the same interface as pouchdb and is as easy to set up as MySQL/MariaDB in my experience. I don't know if many hosting providers give out of the box CouchDB installations, so that may be a problem, but I think that anyone in a situation to need something that heavy duty would be experienced enough to not have trouble with it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/1fb383cf-b1d0-4cd0-9768-a6f315076b53%40googlegroups.com.
