Nothing quite like that and there are a few different prevailing ideas. For instant gratification on OS X though you can check out CouchDBX. Jon Gretar's got a version on github that just sits in the sys tray out of the way. While not SQLite per se, it does allow instant end user access to a locally running CouchDB. There's effort to get a windows installer afoot as well. There are technical hurdles still being navigated though so no ETA.
As for other *nix systems I'm not sure on what options there are for easily running CouchDB as a single user. There was a guy in #couchdb asking just today about binding to a kernel provided port that would probably be on the agenda. Paul Davis On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Dale Wiles<dale.wi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've been following CouchDB for a while and I'm really impressed with the way > it's coming along. > > However, like >90% of the users out there, I'm not a business and I don't > really care about replication and daemons and scary things that go bump in > the kernel. I just need somewhere to put my address lists and record > collection. > > Are there any plans, or is it even feasible, to make a serverless version of > CouchDB, in a manor similar to SqLite? > > For those who don't know SqLite: CouchDB would be a file or set of files. It > "starts up" when the file is opened and "shuts down" when the file closes. > If you can read the file you can read the DB. If you can write the file, you > an write the DB. Database locking is handled by the DB. > > I think a *lot* of potential casual database users would be interested in a > no hassle/no mystery version of CouchDB they could play with. It's something > to think about. > > - Dale > > -- > Dale Wiles > dale.wi...@gmail.com >
