What is document replication?

What is document replication?

Replication is an incremental one way process involving two databases (a source and a destination). The replication process only copies the last revision of a document, so all previous revisions that were only in the source database are not copied to the destination database.

How CouchDB replication works?

During replication, CouchDB will compare the source and the destination database to determine which documents differ between the source and the destination database. It does so by following the Changes Feeds on the source and comparing the documents to the destination.

What is replication in CouchDB?

Replication synchronizes two copies of the same database, allowing users to have low latency access to data no matter where they are. Replication is a one-off operation: you send an HTTP request to CouchDB that includes a source and a target database, and CouchDB will send the changes from the source to the target.

Which type of NoSQL database is cloudant?

Cloudant

Developer(s) Original development by Cloudant, now developed by IBM, based on Apache CouchDB
Type NoSQL, DBaaS
License Monthly subscription or perpetual software license agreement, Proprietary
Website cloudant.com

What is PouchDB server?

PouchDB is an open-source, NoSQL, in-line database. It is written in JavaScript and is basically a javascript implementation of CouchDB. It is modeled after CouchDB – a NoSQL database that powers npm. We can also create applications using PouchDB which can work offline and online and thus it saves data locally.

Is Cloudant a NoSQL database?

Cloudant is a non-relational, distributed database service of the same name….Cloudant.

Developer(s) Original development by Cloudant, now developed by IBM, based on Apache CouchDB
Type NoSQL, DBaaS

Is NoSQL a Cloudant?

Since Cloudant provides both the HTTP interface to the data, as well as the NoSQL backend, I was able to focus on the app and boost my productivity. cloudant adds some features to improve security and data query like tokens and cloudant query that really adds a lot of power to these features over the standard CouchDB.

How do I access PouchDB?

PouchDB can be used in the browser, locally in Node, and remotely via HTTP protocol. By default, PouchDB ships with the IndexedDB adapter for the browser, LevelDB adapter in Node. js, and CouchDB adapter for remote databases. Apache CouchDB is open source document-oriented NoSQL database.