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Re: CouchDB 3.0

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Post by newfeatureok »

One interesting thing you can do with CouchDB is that you can have a webapp where a user can specify their own database and credentials and it works over HTTP(s). That's pretty unique. I'd love to see a SaaS using CouchDB and their "on-premise" offering just means the user provides their own database. I'm not sure how payment would work though - perhaps some verification proxy?

Firebase is the gold-standard for offline apps (as a service). CouchDB replaces Cloud Firestore, and Keycloak replaces Authentication. I haven't seen OSS equivalents of Cloud Functions, ML Kit, and the other things (e.g. In-App messaging, and Cloud Messaging). It'd be nice to have the entire stack of Firebase bundled as a group of OSS projects, including CouchDB.

Sad to see that per doc access control didn't make it in 3.0. Hopefully it'll be in 3.1.

Re: CouchDB 3.0

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Post by pachico »

newfeatureok wrote: post #2

One interesting thing you can do with CouchDB is that you can have a webapp where a user can specify their own database and credentials and it works over HTTP(s). That's pretty unique. I'd love to see a SaaS using CouchDB and their "on-premise" offering just means the user provides their own database. I'm not sure how payment would work though - perhaps some verification proxy? Firebase is the gold-standard for offli…

I didn't understand. You mean it's unique to work over http(s)?

Re: CouchDB 3.0

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Post by Graphguy »

newfeatureok wrote: post #2

One interesting thing you can do with CouchDB is that you can have a webapp where a user can specify their own database and credentials and it works over HTTP(s). That's pretty unique. I'd love to see a SaaS using CouchDB and their "on-premise" offering just means the user provides their own database. I'm not sure how payment would work though - perhaps some verification proxy? Firebase is the gold-standard for offli…

Cloudant on IBM Cloud is CouchDB API/replication compatible and offers support for Apache CouchDB (1). Also, OpenWhisk integrates nicely with CouchDB/Cloudant and can even be a backing persistence for it (2)

(1) https://www.ibm.com/cloud/blog/announcements/announcing-supp... (2)https://github.com/apache/openwhisk/blob/master/tools/db/REA...

Re: CouchDB 3.0

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Post by [deleted] »

newfeatureok wrote: post #2

One interesting thing you can do with CouchDB is that you can have a webapp where a user can specify their own database and credentials and it works over HTTP(s). That's pretty unique. I'd love to see a SaaS using CouchDB and their "on-premise" offering just means the user provides their own database. I'm not sure how payment would work though - perhaps some verification proxy? Firebase is the gold-standard for offli…

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Re: CouchDB 3.0

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Post by newfeatureok »

pachico wrote: post #3
newfeatureok wrote: post #2

One interesting thing you can do with CouchDB is that you can have a webapp where a user can specify their own database and credentials and it works over HTTP(s). That's pretty unique. I'd love to see a SaaS using CouchDB and their "on-premise" offering just means the user provides their own database. I'm not sure how payment would work though - perhaps some verification proxy? Firebase is the gold-standard for offli…

I didn't understand. You mean it's unique to work over http(s)?

I mean your CouchDB instance itself is represented by a host and port and your application's data could be stored there and a native HTTP-based API to access said data. This is contrasted to most where you would need a driver and it's accessible only in the "back-end".

Re: CouchDB 3.0

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Post by canada_dry »

Maybe I'm being petty, but it doesn't fill me with confidence when the ssl certificate on their website isn't even configured properly (valid for uberspace.de domain).

To clarify: seems their main site is on apache.org. But, their www.couchdb.org site (hosted on uberspace.de) doesn't have a correct cert.

Re: CouchDB 3.0

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Post by chasers »

newfeatureok wrote: post #2

One interesting thing you can do with CouchDB is that you can have a webapp where a user can specify their own database and credentials and it works over HTTP(s). That's pretty unique. I'd love to see a SaaS using CouchDB and their "on-premise" offering just means the user provides their own database. I'm not sure how payment would work though - perhaps some verification proxy? Firebase is the gold-standard for offli…

I'm doing this with BigQuery for Logflare (logflare.app).

Re: CouchDB 3.0

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Post by lars_francke »

canada_dry wrote: post #7

Maybe I'm being petty, but it doesn't fill me with confidence when the ssl certificate on their website isn't even configured properly (valid for uberspace.de domain). To clarify: seems their main site is on apache.org. But, their www.couchdb.org site (hosted on uberspace.de) doesn't have a correct cert.

For me I get a valid Let's Encrypt certificate that has blog.couchdb.org in its SAN list.

Re: CouchDB 3.0

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Post by Hedja »

canada_dry wrote: post #7

Maybe I'm being petty, but it doesn't fill me with confidence when the ssl certificate on their website isn't even configured properly (valid for uberspace.de domain). To clarify: seems their main site is on apache.org. But, their www.couchdb.org site (hosted on uberspace.de) doesn't have a correct cert.

Their blog is hosted on Wordpress.com which seems to be using Let's Encrypt to generate one certificate for multiple different, unrelated custom domain names.

Maybe you encountered a bug where it served the wrong cert for a different batch of custom domains.

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