Comment by lukevp

This is really cool, thanks for your work! I really love couchdb. I have seen tickets for document based ACLs on their github recently, I think this is the last feature they need to open up usage across many more domains. The core app works great for replication between dbs and to the edge using pouchdb, but almost everyone is turned off by the database-per-user that is required to use it. If they solve that I think their adoption could skyrocket, if they can get over the hurdle of years of neglecting this core feature where everyone became disillusioned by it. It’s positioned as a “put your db up on the internet and interact/replicate over http” but it doesn’t work for most non trivial use cases because everyone can then see the data, so you end up layering adapters on to do ACL. This should really just be built in to the core app.