On May 16, 2013, at 9:58 AM, Ashraf Janan <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
which is the best CouchDB book ? http://guide.couchdb.org/ .Iam studying iOS applications development and i want to use CouchDB with Xcode. How can i do that ?thanks What exactly do you want to build? If you want to make an iOS app that talks to a remote CouchDB server, i.e. accessing only remote data, use the CouchCocoa library (https://github.com/couchbaselabs/CouchCocoa). It’s a fairly lightweight wrapper around the CouchDB REST API. If you want to put a CouchDB-type database inside your iOS app, and then probably replicate with remote servers, use TouchDB (https://github.com/couchbaselabs/TouchDB) which is a compatible database library built for iOS. Trying to run Apache CouchDB itself on iOS is not the way to go: it’s too hard to build, too big, and doesn’t perform well enough. (I spent six months working on doing exactly that and gave up.) BTW I am the primary author of those two libraries. —Jens
