Hi, I'm looking for a Couchbase hosting service to provide Couchbase Lite replication services for my (non-enterprise) Mac and iOS apps. Here are my requirements:
1. Security. I don't want to have access to any user's data. All communication with server must be secure. Storage of user data must be secure. 2. There must be an API so that my app can create both databases and user accounts on demand with multiple databases per user account. 3. Each user must have their own databases. I don't want documents from one user intermixed with documents of another user. One reason is for security, another is that different users can possibly have documents with the same documentID. I think having separate databases solves this problem. I'm not sure if Couchbase Server's "channels" feature allows for this. 4. Lots of storage available for attachments. In order to provide easy access to files outside the document, I'm using the attachments feature of CBL. 5. A nice to have would be direct client billing. I would prefer if my customers had to sign-up for an account and pay for the service themselves rather than me having to pay on their behalf. Does such a service exist outside of Cloudant? I think Cloudant sounds like a fantastic service to use, but they want to charge me a starting price of $2500 / month for a hosted solution and that's with only 480 GB of disk space. They seemed very reluctant when I asked them about using attachments to store files. Not sure why, attachments are a great feature of Couchbase and it solves a huge problem with synchronizing files. My data has to be available offline, so I can't just store a URL to some other file storage system like Amazon S3 and I don't want to write my own file sync solution. That's why I chose Couchbase Lite in the first place. Perhaps I'm just living in a dreamworld where such a service exists. Currently my app uses iCloud Drive and Dropbox for syncing user's data. So it's up to the user to provide their own cloud storage space. Why don't I just keep using iCloud Drive and Dropbox for cloud storage? Mostly because I am also giving user's an option to use Couchbase Lite's peer-to-peer replication feature and using document attachments is perfect for this. I don't have to worry about syncing files separately from the database. It just all happens automatically. I don't want to have to write different code for syncing files via a cloud service and a separate one for syncing peer-to-peer. And then what about if the user switches from syncing via a cloud service to syncing via peer-to-peer? I'd have to manage copying files from the cloud service down to their device and then adding them as document attachments so they could be synced peer-to-peer. Anyway, so I'm hoping that it's possible for me to provide this kind of sync service to my customers. If anyone has any advice it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Brendan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Couchbase Mobile" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mobile-couchbase/19412c65-b2d0-4584-bc82-059f6cf62dfb%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
