Hi Chris, using decentral data storage on mobile devices for working together on the same data and get notices of changes for our user defined conflict resolutions management would be a great benefit to our work.
Cheers, Harry On 16.03.12 20:02, "Chris Anderson" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello CouchDB users, > > I know some of you are interested in the potential of CouchDB style > sync, to bring offline data access to users on mobile devices. > > Couchbase has invested a lot of time into building CouchDB compatible > implementations for mobile devices. [1] > > We are getting to the point in the product development cycle where we > need to make some hard decisions, about which use cases to prioritize, > and which cases are better left to fend for themselves. I have a few > questions which will help us know what the bulk of the users are > thinking of doing on mobile platforms. > > If you prefer to reply privately, feel free to email me at jchris at > apache.org or jchris at couchbase.com - thanks in advance! > > Are you interested in a solution that bridges big data on the server, > with user-level subsets on the phone? Eg the data in the cloud would > be in a repository that contains all of the user data, with queries to > split out the data for a given user. (Think filtered replication on > steroids.) > > Or is it more about keeping a single user's data up to date across > their devices? This is more like Apple iCloud or Dropbox, and would > have less need for a centralized consolidated database and advanced > query based sync filtering. > > Is there a collaborative aspect to your data? Will disconnected users > potentially be working on the same data and generating conflicting > edits? > > Cheers! > Chris > > [1] http://www.couchbase.com/wiki/display/couchbase/Couchbase+Mobile+Syncpoint
