free cloud data stores that use get/post? [closed]

Answer 1

OpenKeyval is open-source, so you can host it yourself internally and add whatever access limitations you like.

CouchDB is basically OpenKeyval on steroids. It provides a RESTful JSON API than can be accessed from any environment that allows HTTP requests (i.e., JavaScript) but you'll have to host it yourself since there aren't any public-facing CouchDB servers (that I know of).

And since you're looking for a list:

• Amazon SimpleDB
• Hypertable
• Cassandra
• Hadoop
• Ringo
• ThruDB
• CouchDB
• HBase

Answer 2

I needed something like that, so I've built this: KVStore.io, a simple key/value API based storage service

It's still under heavy development (it's an alpha version...) but I'm using it to store some stuffs (like website marketing forms) and it's working nicely...

Answer 3

Parse.com's data storage api has a really wonderful jquery library ( https://github.com/srhyne/jQuery-Parse ) that makes it extremely easy to have simple key/value storage from your front-end javascript.

Answer 4

Besides Parse, StackMob and Cloudant, there are other solutions:

• Firebase provides a free 100MB cloud backend with REST and JS API,
• MongoHQ offers 512MB free instance of MongoDB with REST API,
• Google Cloud Datastore with 1GB free storage is another option.

Answer 5

StackMob or Parse if you want a (client-side) JavaScript API with user management, facebook/twitter integration, data store (with geospatial), and push notifications.

StackMob also lets you host your website.

For more flexibility, less service lock-in, and cheaper scalability: I would suggest CouchDB (though you would likely still use a hosting service like Cloudant). CouchDB can host your website, and provides a HTTP API for storing data, to which your client-side JavaScript can make REST calls.