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I must admit that I'm not very familiar with CouchDB. From what I have read think there are a lot of similarities - and with the same goal of building complete
by mckoss 16y ago
I must admit that I'm not very familiar with CouchDB. From what I have read think there are a lot of similarities - and with the same goal of building complete web apps using only client-side JavaScript.
Pageforest has a focus on building a multi-tenant application hub. I think of it as kind of
distributed Google Docs infrastructure:
- Users' data is stored in a unified document store that is owned by the user. They can
view and manage all their "documents" created from applications from one place.
- They can use their Pageforest account to grant permissions to each application they
want to use to write into their document store.
BTW - Pageforest is currently hosted as a Google AppEngine app - so it picks up the scalability
benefits of BigTable with a datacenter managed by Google.
- TheIronYuppie 16y agoI'm surprised to see a suggestion of CouchDB - with the deep integration of BigTable with App Engine, I think it'd be unnecessarily hard to use anything else.
- jchrisa 16y agoPageForest uses App Engine to provide a key value storage API with user authentication. CouchDB has these out-of-the-box, so a CouchDB version should be much less code than this version. Not to mention all the things Couch supports that would be a major challenge to implement within App Engine.