We may switch, but it's a major conversion for us to move from an Android app wrapping a couchapp to PhoneGap. Plus Couchbase Lite doesn't support views or lists, which our couchapp uses. On Jul 19, 2013 6:15 PM, "Jens Alfke" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Jul 19, 2013, at 1:22 AM, Huber Hermann <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > I'm also using the rather old mobile version on android devices and ask > myself if it's a good deal to replace it with couchbase lite (didn't test > it yet). Are there any plans to release and possibly maintain a mobile > version of couchdb? > > In my (biased) opinion, you should definitely switch to Couchbase Lite. > The Android version is still pre-release, but Traun Leyden is working on it > full-time now and making a lot of progress. You could also look at PouchDB. > > CouchDB is inherently going to be bigger and slower than a more-native > equivalent. In our experience there is quite a lot of overhead to running > an Erlang VM on a mobile device, especially since Erlang has a fairly slow > interpreter without any JIT optimizations. > > —Jens >
