Sam Ruby plays with CouchDB

Sam Ruby has some things to say about CouchDB, in particular, how it has the same interface regardless of the type of client.

What API’s/drivers to I need to integrate it with Ruby?

HTTP and JSON.
What API’s/drivers would I need to integrate it with Java?

HTTP and JSON.
What API’s/drivers would I need to integrate it with AJAX?

HTTP and JSON.
What API’s/drivers would I need to integrate it with...

oh, you get my point.


Do HTTP and JSON work with existing J2EE servers? You betcha.

What tooling to I need? Um, a browser, perhaps?


What I think is interesting to note is that JDBC/ODBC/ADO.net are all APIs on top of the same protocol, too. It's just the the underlying protocol is non-standard, whereas HTTP and JSON are standard. So developers can write straight to the underlying protocol rather than needing a specific API for their particular programming environment.

Anyway, time for a second look at CouchDB. I don't know how I missed that the first time I saw it, but it has full bidirectional replication for offline support. That's nothing to be sniffed at...