I feel like CouchDB doesn't come off as good in that article as it actually is: - It's fast, especially if you run it on a single node with proper hardware. -

I feel like CouchDB doesn't come off as good in that article as it actually is: - It's fast, especially if you run it on a single node with proper hardware. - It's well suited for multi-device apps. You even get a changes feed for live replication. - I'd rather bet my money on CouchDB (Apache Project with significant support from IBM) being around in 20 years still than on Dropbox. Privacy and user control is OFC up to the app developer. Also, it's no worse of a CRDT than the proposed structure, you just need to design the document structure well: In the given example, each todo should be a different document and voilá - you'll only get conflicts if the exact same entry is modified.