Excuse my curiosity unrelated to the current topic but I'm about to deploy a small scale hybrid (desktop & web) application using PouchDB. I have strongly unreliable networks (3G networks with entire days where the app is offline). The nodes are owning their own chunk of data so there is no risk of conflicts whatsoever, the main goal is to sync as soon as they can. PouchDB/CouchDB seemed clearly the best fit for this kind of unusual application. Did you encounter any problem with it ? Or if you can share your opinion on this technology after using it.
Hi. First a disclaimer: I have no production app running this setup yet, but I have been working with PouchDB and recently CouchDB for a few months now. Experimenting with a Phonegap/Web app in Angular (I would recommend React instead I think though, but that is irrelevant to the Pouch&Couch story).
I have a similar use cases as you in mind for my PouchDB setup; being offline for a while and then syncing many things at once. So far I have been testing with high performance networks mostly (including good 3g however). I have also tested going into airplane mode on my phone, then making changes and then going online again after a while. All changes came through nicely. So you can do what you ask: sync as soon as there is a connection.
Indeed when there are no issues regarding conflicts that you have to resolve it seems that Pouch and Couch are a very very good way to have offline <-> online sync.
