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CouchDB vs Pouchdb: What are the differences?

Developers describe CouchDB as "HTTP + JSON document database with Map Reduce views and peer-based replication". Apache CouchDB is a database that uses JSON for documents, JavaScript for MapReduce indexes, and regular HTTP for its API. CouchDB is a database that completely embraces the web. Store your data with JSON documents. Access your documents and query your indexes with your web browser, via HTTP. Index, combine, and transform your documents with JavaScript. On the other hand, Pouchdb is detailed as "Open-source JavaScript database inspired by Apache CouchDB that's designed to run well within the browser". PouchDB enables applications to store data locally while offline, then synchronize it with CouchDB and compatible servers when the application is back online, keeping the user's data in sync no matter where they next login.

CouchDB and Pouchdb can be categorized as "Databases" tools.

CouchDB and Pouchdb are both open source tools. Pouchdb with 12.1K GitHub stars and 1.21K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than CouchDB with 4.24K GitHub stars and 835 GitHub forks.

BrightMachine, Bit Zesty, and Meltwater are some of the popular companies that use CouchDB, whereas Pouchdb is used by BrightMachine, Greenkeeper, and SearchBookGo, LLC.. CouchDB has a broader approval, being mentioned in 61 company stacks & 31 developers stacks; compared to Pouchdb, which is listed in 8 company stacks and 9 developer stacks.

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Gabriel Pa
CEO at NaoLogic Inc · | 9 upvotes · 430.6K views
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We implemented our first large scale EPR application from naologic.com using CouchDB .

Very fast, replication works great, doesn't consume much RAM, queries are blazing fast but we found a problem: the queries were very hard to write, it took a long time to figure out the API, we had to go and write our own @nodejs library to make it work properly.

It lost most of its support. Since then, we migrated to Couchbase and the learning curve was steep but all worth it. Memcached indexing out of the box, full text search works great.

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Pros of CouchDB
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    Open source
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    Highly available
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    Partition tolerant
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    Eventual consistency
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    Sync
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    REST API
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    Attachments mechanism to docs
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    Multi master replication
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    Changes feed
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    REST interface
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    js- and erlang-views
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    Offline cache
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    JSON
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    Very fast
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    Free
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What is CouchDB?

Apache CouchDB is a database that uses JSON for documents, JavaScript for MapReduce indexes, and regular HTTP for its API. CouchDB is a database that completely embraces the web. Store your data with JSON documents. Access your documents and query your indexes with your web browser, via HTTP. Index, combine, and transform your documents with JavaScript.

What is Pouchdb?

PouchDB enables applications to store data locally while offline, then synchronize it with CouchDB and compatible servers when the application is back online, keeping the user's data in sync no matter where they next login.

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What are some alternatives to CouchDB and Pouchdb?
MongoDB
MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.
Couchbase
Developed as an alternative to traditionally inflexible SQL databases, the Couchbase NoSQL database is built on an open source foundation and architected to help developers solve real-world problems and meet high scalability demands.
Cloudant
Cloudant’s distributed database as a service (DBaaS) allows developers of fast-growing web and mobile apps to focus on building and improving their products, instead of worrying about scaling and managing databases on their own.
MariaDB
Started by core members of the original MySQL team, MariaDB actively works with outside developers to deliver the most featureful, stable, and sanely licensed open SQL server in the industry. MariaDB is designed as a drop-in replacement of MySQL(R) with more features, new storage engines, fewer bugs, and better performance.
RethinkDB
RethinkDB is built to store JSON documents, and scale to multiple machines with very little effort. It has a pleasant query language that supports really useful queries like table joins and group by, and is easy to setup and learn.
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