PaulCapestany

Don't want to be accused of being a shill (I'm not, I'm just a fan), but if you're looking for potential alternatives to RethinkDB, Couchbase (the company that was formed when the MemcacheD and CouchDB folks joined forces) offer a totally open source realtime-sync API/SDK (cross-platform: mobile, web, you name it).

Link: http://www.couchbase.com/nosql-databases/couchbase-mobile

The guy who's work was originally the basis for Augur has some interesting things to say about that project (and is working on his own implementation of a Bitcoin-based prediction market): http://www.truthcoin.info/faq/

I've been following (and using) the betas for all this stuff for well over a year now, and while it was already pretty awesome back then, watching the evolution and continual imrpovement of it all has been amazing.

In one sense, I think the Couchbase syncing tech is the way mobile development should have always been. It just makes sense. The fact that there hasn't been a reasonable way to do any of this till now is pretty crazy: iCloud is a ridiculously unreliable black box where you have no real control of your data, Dropbox "syncing" is even more limited and is basically just crappy hack, and other "sync solutions" I've seen have been even more unusable still.

Props to the Couchbase team for continuously pushing the limits of this tech without compromise, and being open source all along the way.

This visualization looked particularly good to me:

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tvon, if you live in Mount Vernon, you should try and check out http://www.twitter.com/CoworkCharles as well. It's a bunch of techies getting together to cowork at coffeeshops with free wifi along Charles Street, happens about once a week.

The more the merrier!