couchbase-lite

In a Phonegap offline/online project: What is the difference between using PouchDB and using CouchBase Lite with the new LiteGap plugin? Are they two different solutions to the same problem? Can the PouchDB API be used to interact with a local CouchBase Lite database? After some research and being a relatively new topic, i thought it would be interesting to share my experiences replying my own question: What is the difference between using PouchDB and using CouchBase Lite with the new LiteGap plugin? PouchDB can create a local database ( websql or IndexedDB ) on the device and replicate it

I'm trying to create a custom framework called CouchbaseKit (a new target in Xcode) in Swift. Inside my CouchbaseKit , I need to access CouchBaseLite Framework that's entirely written in Obj-C . I'm using Cocoapods to manage CouchBaseLite and a couple of other frameworks. Below is my podfile. Podfile # Uncomment this line to define a global platform for your project link_with ['CouchbaseKit'] # platform :ios, '8.0' use_frameworks! target 'CouchbaseDB' do link_with ['CouchbaseKit'] pod 'couchbase-lite-ios' pod 'SwiftyJSON', '~> 2.2.0' pod 'Alamofire', '~> 1.2' pod 'XCGLogger', '~> 2.0' end

I'm unclear about the requirements for using Couchbase-lite. Is it possible to use Couchbase-lite with CouchDB? Or does Couchbase-lite require Couchbase Server and Sync Gateway? Thanks! According to the documents it is 100% compatible with both CouchDB and Couchbase. http://docs.couchbase.com/couchbase-lite/cbl-concepts/#can-couchbase-lite-replicate-with-apache-couchdb-servers Also I found this blog post on syncing IOS with CouchDB, might be useful! http://blog.lunarlogic.io/2013/synchronization-using-couchdb/ Edit Official Couchbase link above isn't valid anymore however the following