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Arguably things are even worse than discussed in that article. Take Firebase, for instance: it implements offline caching, but that's very different from sync. You have to design a whole replication strategy on top to get something like "a synced file format."
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CouchDB seems like the closest solution, if you can design a conflict-free model. But I spent the last week getting into the details of actually operating a multi-user service, and I am now quite thoroughly spooked!
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Thanks! I'm very excited about the distributed design direction. Unfortunately a file system doesn't quite fit my application model: I'd still need to build a database on top of this for querying/indexing. I see there's a TODO for databases in the white paper?
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