TouchDB-iOS

There are a lot of alternatives to iCloud. Most of them are just backend-as-a-service, but some of them are really sync engines. Dropbox has been around a long time, and is really popular for iOS file sync. My team at Couchbase has been building mobile NoSQL databases that sync[1], for a number of years now, and our tech is used by a few apps in the app store already.[2] This preamble is to say that I've had plenty of conversations with developers who would be in iCloud's target market but decided not to use it. And the big reason they won't use it has very little to do with the reliability and user experience problems that keep coming up in the critiques of iCloud. The big reason they don't use it, is that they need to control their data. It's one thing for a small game or journaling app to outsource data management to Apple, but an enti

I have been surprised at the relative lack of interest from developers about first class syncing support, when mobile blew up I expected a flurry if libraries and tools that I could use to have my app work offline and sync data wherever I am. Sometime last year I gave up waiting and started working on PouchDB (http://pouchdb.com/), its based on CouchDB's syncing model (and syncs with CouchDB) and works anywhere that Javascript runs (the browser + node), there is an iOS / OSX equivalent (https://github.com/couchbaselabs/TouchDB-iOS). PouchDB isnt quite ready for production but its getting close, I would love any feedback on it, although I expect most people commenting on this would be more interested in TouchDB

Anyone using TouchDB as an alternative to iCloud core data syncing? https://github.com/couchbaselabs/TouchDB-iOS Of course, you would need to support some form of CouchDB server for this to work, deal with authentication, etc.