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I am developing an app which is supposed to send data to a MySQL DB in a remote server so as to be later displayed in a webpage that grabs the data from that server, and I was wondering if it's possible to use some NoSQL solution instead of MySQL?
I have been reading about CouchDB and MongoDB but I still don't understand if I could use them for my purposes, as for example with MongoDB, I have to install the app on the Android phone and I still have no clue how I can install it in a remote server.
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CouchBase Mobile is probably what you are looking for. I don't think there is an equivalent solution for MongoDB yet, and it's not really what it is designed for anyway.
EDIT: But what is wrong with the MySQL option?
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