Riak on your cellphone

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The consistency model used by Riak is intended to continue operating well even while nodes in your Riak cluster are down or unreachable, a property which also makes it a excellent model for mobile data. [...] Typical usages for Riak Mobile is as a mobile content distribution platform using one-way sync; or with two-way sync to also push updated data back to your Riak cluster when the network is "eventually" available. 

... The client-part of Riak Mobile does not need an Erlang VM.  Rather, it comes as either a Java or an Objective-C component using SQLite for on-device storage, and thus integrates well into the native development environments...
Sounds like Riak might actually actually do what CouchDB promised...


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