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Ask HN: What database should I use, and how should I choose?

First off I am working on a web application and eventually a mobile application with the following requirements:

* I need something that will support offline storage at some point.

* There will be a lot of reading from the database

* There will be a lot of small writes to the database, but not many big writes

* I don't really want to lose data

* I would like to support real time interactions

* I would like it to be easily scalable and maintainable (possibly hosted/maintained by a third party) as I am working solo

I have experience with Mongodb (although possible loss of data is alarming) and a lot of experience with MySQL/Postgres.

I am looking into Couchdb/Pouchdb as that seems to fit my requirements, but I am concerned about speed.

12 points iN7h33nD 11 years ago 16 comments

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