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Foundbite: Launching and Scaling with Cloudant and Windows Azure

16 points by mbroberg 13y ago

jamesemundy 13y ago
Here to answer any questions if anyone has any. James
- mlmilleratmit 13y ago
  High level -- what's it like writing for windows mobile vs iOS/android?
  - jamesemundy 13y ago
    I've only just started developing for Android (Foundbite's next version) so can't really give an opinion. Visual Studio is great to work with though. There are only 4 screen resolutions for Windows Phone so in that sense it's easier to develop the UI.
- garbados 13y ago
  You say you evaluated Cloudant and MongoDB, among others. Why did you decide on Cloudant?
  - jamesemundy 13y ago
    -Recommendation by the Windows Azure team. -Scalability. -After I got my head around CouchDB in a weekend it was so easy I didn't need to look any further.
  - jamesemundy 13y ago
    I used the documentation on the Cloudant site over that weekend so that definitely played a large part too.
gspyrou 13y ago
How does Cloudant compares to Azure Table Storage ?
- jamesemundy 13y ago
  Azure tables is good for storing data much in the same way as a spreadsheet, however when you want to do anything even slightly complicated to index the data it soon becomes hard with table storage and you have to start repeating data. Not ideal. Cloudant makes it very easy to store the data and index it in a myriad of ways without repeating any data.
  - quaffapint 13y ago
    While I agree on limitation of indexes - you get 3 - table name, partition key and row key, you can 'nicely repeat data' by embedding it via serialization. I ported my db from mongo over to storage tables. I was embedding data, so I didn't have to do two lookups, and when I moved over to storage tables, I wanted the same thing, so simply serialized via protobuf - works a treat.
    - jamesemundy 13y ago
      Interesting, certainly clever than the way we were trying it.
junto 13y ago
If you need a side by side comparison for MongoDb and Cloudant, you can find it here: http://vschart.com/compare/cloudant/vs/mongodb http://vschart.com/compare/cloudant/vs/mongodb

16 points by mbroberg 13y ago

jamesemundy 13y ago

Here to answer any questions if anyone has any. James

mlmilleratmit 13y ago
High level -- what's it like writing for windows mobile vs iOS/android?
- jamesemundy 13y ago
  I've only just started developing for Android (Foundbite's next version) so can't really give an opinion. Visual Studio is great to work with though. There are only 4 screen resolutions for Windows Phone so in that sense it's easier to develop the UI.
garbados 13y ago
You say you evaluated Cloudant and MongoDB, among others. Why did you decide on Cloudant?
- jamesemundy 13y ago
  -Recommendation by the Windows Azure team. -Scalability. -After I got my head around CouchDB in a weekend it was so easy I didn't need to look any further.
- jamesemundy 13y ago
  I used the documentation on the Cloudant site over that weekend so that definitely played a large part too.

gspyrou 13y ago

How does Cloudant compares to Azure Table Storage ?

jamesemundy 13y ago
Azure tables is good for storing data much in the same way as a spreadsheet, however when you want to do anything even slightly complicated to index the data it soon becomes hard with table storage and you have to start repeating data. Not ideal. Cloudant makes it very easy to store the data and index it in a myriad of ways without repeating any data.
- quaffapint 13y ago
  While I agree on limitation of indexes - you get 3 - table name, partition key and row key, you can 'nicely repeat data' by embedding it via serialization. I ported my db from mongo over to storage tables. I was embedding data, so I didn't have to do two lookups, and when I moved over to storage tables, I wanted the same thing, so simply serialized via protobuf - works a treat.
  - jamesemundy 13y ago
    Interesting, certainly clever than the way we were trying it.

junto 13y ago

If you need a side by side comparison for MongoDb and Cloudant, you can find it here: http://vschart.com/compare/cloudant/vs/mongodb http://vschart.com/compare/cloudant/vs/mongodb