> you can store the HTML, JS and the data all in CouchDB I think you're talking of CouchApp, which allows you to create apps like that on top of CouchDB. Of c

> you can store the HTML, JS and the data all in CouchDB I think you're talking of CouchApp, which allows you to create apps like that on top of CouchDB. Of course, if that was the maximum of what one was trying to do, one could get similar functionality from an RDBMS, some simple routing rules, and a CGI script that served content straight from the DB. I guess my point is that there's not really anything intrinsic to CouchDB that makes this possible: it's a pretty short and inviting conceptual leap from "this DB does everything through an HTTP interface" to "I can run my entire application from this DB". My worry (and I'm not accusing the parent of this) is that that misses out on all of the other things that CouchDB offers (especially the ability to merge DBs that have been disconnected for long periods, which often gets lost behind the HTTP interface and MapReduce hand-waving).