ANN: Couchbase Lite 1.0 database/sync library
ANN: Couchbase Lite 1.0 database/sync library
- Subject: ANN: Couchbase Lite 1.0 database/sync library
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 08:37:44 -0700
Hey everyone, my day-job project that I’ve been toiling on for three years(!) has finally gone 1.0.
http://www.couchbase.com/mobile
http://developer.couchbase.com/mobile/
https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-lite-ios
In my own non-marketing speak: Couchbase Lite is an open-source framework for iOS and OS X (and Android and soon .NET) that provides a JSON-based local database engine with really advanced data sync / replication capabilities. It lets you store all the relevant data locally, so your app can work while offline, then sync changes to/from a server when the network’s available. The server-side component supports databases shared between any number of users so you can build multi-user and social apps. The sync protocols are REST-based and open, and interoperate with CouchDB and Cloudant.
- It’s kind of like Core Data with iCloud sync, except multi-user and multi-platform and the server isn’t a black box.
- It’s kind of like Parse, except with more robust offline support, and you can use your own server instead of Facebook’s (or go P2P!)
- It’s kind of like the great offline/sync capabilities of apps like Things or The Hit List, except you don’t have to spend person-years of your own development time figuring out how to make it work reliably. (We already did that for you :-p)
Sorry about the blurbing! I hope I’ve accumulated enough karma here to make this lapse forgivable :)
—Jens
PS: Oh, also, I have to give a shout out to the great libraries like FMDB and CocoaHTTPServer that I’ve leaned on. W00t!
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