Watch a daring database server go, where no database server has gone before!
One of CouchDB's core features is multi-master data replication over HTTP. While CouchDB-to-CouchDB replication is nothing new, there's a number of projects that implement the replication protocol to get the same data-liberating setup into places a database server usually can't go: a browser or smartphone for example.
Watch a daring database server go, where no database server has gone before!
CouchDB's core feature, multi-master data replication, is so useful that not just CouchDB implements it, but a number of other projects as well.
We'll go briefly through the nature of replication and then see what other software projects can be used in conjunction with CouchDB and what problems the combination can solve.