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Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 18:32:41 -0600
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Subject: Re: Update (Erlang) Android-Couchbase Viable?
From: Brad Rhoads <bdrhoa@gmail.com>
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We may switch,  but it's a major conversion for us to move from an Android
app wrapping a couchapp to PhoneGap. Plus Couchbase Lite doesn't support
views or lists, which our couchapp uses.
On Jul 19, 2013 6:15 PM, "Jens Alfke" <jens@couchbase.com> wrote:

>
> On Jul 19, 2013, at 1:22 AM, Huber Hermann <Hermann.Huber@ait.ac.at
> <mailto:Hermann.Huber@ait.ac.at>> wrote:
>
> I'm also using the rather old mobile version on android devices and ask
> myself if it's a good deal to replace it with couchbase lite (didn't test
> it yet). Are there any plans to release and possibly maintain a mobile
> version of couchdb?
>
> In my (biased) opinion, you should definitely switch to Couchbase Lite.
> The Android version is still pre-release, but Traun Leyden is working on =
it
> full-time now and making a lot of progress. You could also look at PouchD=
B.
>
> CouchDB is inherently going to be bigger and slower than a more-native
> equivalent. In our experience there is quite a lot of overhead to running
> an Erlang VM on a mobile device, especially since Erlang has a fairly slo=
w
> interpreter without any JIT optimizations.
>
> =97Jens
>

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