PouchDB, the In-Browser Database That Replicates

Nice to see some good discussion about PouchDB, cheers for all the thanks as well but just wanted to make sure the credit goes where its due, PouchDB is a fairly small project that I do in my (rare) spare time, but it has 55 contributors who very much make it the project it is<p><a href="https://github.com/daleharvey/pouchdb/graphs/contributors" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;daleharvey&#x2F;pouchdb&#x2F;graphs&#x2F;contributors</a>

I&#x27;m surprised more people haven&#x27;t heard of PouchDB, so good on Cloudant for donating buzz to an excellent FOSS project. And thanks again, Dale Harvey, for being a fscking genius. :)<p>My boss tells me I&#x27;ll be making a whole private document management &amp; CRM around it and CouchDB, and that&#x27;s my fault for showing them to him.

Apparently Cloudant is a couch-compatible cloud-scale database. It would be nice if they mentioned this somewhere on their site, especially after having named their product PouchDB.<p>A question that remains unanswered for me is how do they go about storing the local data in the browser? Do they use local storage? Are there size limits? What&#x27;s reliability like?

How does this handle security? Sending data directly into a database from the browser with no application layer sounds a bit scary.

According to the FAQ in FF it&#x27;s using IndexedDB, what&#x27;s it using in Chrome&#x2F;Opera&#x2F;IE? LocalStorage?<p>Also, what do you do about FF&#x27;s seeming need to pluralize all store names, default out-of-order keys, and clear cache issue?<p>edit for clarity

PouchDB will also sync with Couchbase Sync Gateway. We use PouchDB as part of the load-generator cluster for performance testing. <a href="http://www.couchbase.com/communities/couchbase-sync-gateway" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.couchbase.com&#x2F;communities&#x2F;couchbase-sync-gateway</a><p>There are more and more things that can sync this awesome JSON HTTP protocol. <a href="http://syncable.org/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;syncable.org&#x2F;</a><p>Thanks Dale!

I was immediately struck by the scary thing of putting the password in the URL:<p><pre><code> remote = &#x27;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;USERNAME:PASSWORD@USERNAME.cloudant.com&#x2F;DATABASE&#x27; </code></pre> I know HTTPS URLs are encrypted, but it still strikes me as unsafe. What does HN think?

Does it store data serialized or in object form? I am not sure how JS reacts to a few millions objects.

I use pouchdb with pouchappy.com. Excellent combination.

Does it have any offline-storage capabilities?