free cloud data stores that use get/post?

Question

I know that there are other key/value stores similar to http://openkeyval.org out there but i cannot remember their names.

Please enlighten me.

i need the following features:

• free
• can be used via 100% clientside code
• fast and easy to integrate with

edit:
dropped the security requirement, since its not very important to me and was skewing the answers towards self-hosted solutions.

found another service:
http://rastajs.errorjs.com/

this one is easy to use but seems to mangle my values by removing all the spaces!

Solution 1

I needed something like that, so I've built this: KVStore.io, a simple key/value API based storage service

It's still under heavy development (it's an alpha version...) but I'm using it to store some stuffs (like website marketing forms) and it's working nicely...

Solution 2

Parse.com's data storage api has a really wonderful jquery library ( https://github.com/srhyne/jQuery-Parse ) that makes it extremely easy to have simple key/value storage from your front-end javascript.

Solution 3

OpenKeyval is open-source, so you can host it yourself internally and add whatever access limitations you like.

CouchDB is basically OpenKeyval on steroids. It provides a RESTful JSON API than can be accessed from any environment that allows HTTP requests (i.e., JavaScript) but you'll have to host it yourself since there aren't any public-facing CouchDB servers (that I know of).

And since you're looking for a list:

• Amazon SimpleDB
• Hypertable
• Cassandra
• Hadoop
• Ringo
• ThruDB
• CouchDB
• HBase

Solution 4

StackMob or Parse if you want a (client-side) JavaScript API with user management, facebook/twitter integration, data store (with geospatial), and push notifications.

StackMob also lets you host your website.

For more flexibility, less service lock-in, and cheaper scalability: I would suggest CouchDB (though you would likely still use a hosting service like Cloudant). CouchDB can host your website, and provides a HTTP API for storing data, to which your client-side JavaScript can make REST calls.

Solution 5

Besides Parse, StackMob and Cloudant, there are other solutions:

• Firebase provides a free 100MB cloud backend with REST and JS API,
• MongoHQ offers 512MB free instance of MongoDB with REST API,
• Google Cloud Datastore with 1GB free storage is another option.

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Comments

[mkoryak]

i am looking for free services i can use, and integrate with fast. This is a list of free products. Being somewhat secure is the least of my concerns, since its not even possible in a free public service other than through security through obscurity.

[Rodney Folz]

What's the problem with OpenKeyval? It seems to meet your criteria.

[mkoryak]

the problem is that i remember reading about a similar service on hackernews and thinking "i should use this in my next project". I have since forgotten the name of it and am willing to spend 100 points to find it again

[Peter Tseng]

There's now Cloudant and Iris Couch for hosting

[xiankai]

I spent hours trying to fit a square peg (simple JSON data) into a round hole (Google Cloud Storage/Google Cloud Datastore), then I chanced upon this answer. Totally forgot about Parse, now my app is up and running within minutes!

[rahulserver]

I don't think that parse.com is free. Correct me if I'm wrong

[mkoryak]

looks awesome! Do i need to sign up to use it?

[Carlo Alberto Degli Atti]

Yes.. you have to sign up... there's a post endpoint that allows you to do it.. I've published the Api here: mashape.com/lordkada/kvstore . Let me know if it works... :-)

[Zauberin Stardreamer]

Parse.com was shutdown recently :-/

[elTomato]

Wonderful!!! Thank you!

[Carlo Alberto Degli Atti]

Mashape changed their URL signature, so KVStore can be found here: market.mashape.com/lordkada/kvstore

[Immanuel]

I know it is late, check whether this is helpful online keyvalye store [keyvalue.immanuel.co/] (keyvalue.immanuel.co) with possible developer api..

[Carlo Alberto Degli Atti]

Update: kvstore.io docs can be found here now: rapidapi.com/lordkada1/api/kvstore

[Marius]

@Immanuel Your website is actually the one I chose. Great service: simple usage, no annoying sign-up, clean design. Thank you!