May I ask why CouchDB though? Is it for the offline support? Phoenix comes with its own database tool called Ecto[0] which is excellent, and it uses Postgres b

May I ask why CouchDB though? Is it for the offline support? Phoenix comes with its own database tool called Ecto[0] which is excellent, and it uses Postgres by default. If you're not intended to leverage CouchDB for offline support you should go Postgres without a second thought. That said, I'm also curious about how to implement offline support with Phoenix in a nice and trivial way. [0] https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto