There's also the hosted CouchDB offering by Cloudant (acquired by IBM). Also, just because documentation mentions something that happens beneath the hood, or c

There's also the hosted CouchDB offering by Cloudant (acquired by IBM). Also, just because documentation mentions something that happens beneath the hood, or companies give you finer control over your service configuration, that doesn't mean it's not "fully abstracted". You'd probably want your database in a datacenter close to your target market, for example.