CouchDB on Android: why you should care
The kicker though is that CouchDB already solves the data sync problem for you. Users expect to be able to take their data wherever they go and sometimes, if not often, that means they can’t access the cloud and need a local copy. CouchDB on Android lets you build web-apps or native apps that take full advantage of CouchDB’s built-in, reliable peer-to-peer sync facilities.
via couch.io
At first glance, having the NoSQL database CouchDB available on Android seems strange. Why would you need such a thing?
The answer is device-to-cloud synchronization. This is something CouchDB will provide you, without you needing to write sync logic yourself, so you can write client apps that stay in sync with web services.
This is how the Ubuntu Linux desktop maintains synchronization between your Evolution address book and their cloud service.
Watching eagerly!
