free cloud data stores that use get/post?

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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!

Have you considered building your own simple key-value store on Google App Engine? There are limitations on how much is free, but they are scalable. — cheeken, Jan 26 '12 at 20:46
i have not, mostly because what i want to store is simple json data, and also because i want to spend about 25 mins writing this internal app total. — mkoryak, Jan 26 '12 at 20:58
Is openkeyval the solution you keep as best solution for now or are there reasons you won't? — unludo, Feb 10 '12 at 08:14
By the way I am really wondering how they (plan to) make money. — unludo, Feb 10 '12 at 08:29
You can check out a service I recently built for this.. https://jsonbin.io — Mr. Alien, Nov 28 '17 at 19:06

score 9 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 14 '12 at 04:38

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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.

answered Feb 14 '12 at 04:38

Mike Axiak

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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! – xiankai May 09 '14 at 18:16
I don't think that parse.com is free. Correct me if I'm wrong – rahulserver Apr 09 '15 at 15:31
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Parse.com was shutdown recently :-/ – Zauberin Stardreamer Feb 10 '16 at 16:18

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 19 '15 at 09:33

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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...

answered Jun 19 '15 at 09:33

Carlo Alberto Degli Atti

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looks awesome! Do i need to sign up to use it? – mkoryak Jun 19 '15 at 21:18
Yes.. you have to sign up... there's a post endpoint that allows you to do it.. I've published the Api here: https://www.mashape.com/lordkada/kvstore . Let me know if it works... :-) – Carlo Alberto Degli Atti Jun 21 '15 at 05:41
Wonderful!!! Thank you! – elTomato Feb 15 '16 at 20:50
Mashape changed their URL signature, so KVStore can be found here: https://market.mashape.com/lordkada/kvstore – Carlo Alberto Degli Atti May 03 '17 at 15:30
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I know it is late, check whether this is helpful online keyvalye store [http://keyvalue.immanuel.co/] (http://keyvalue.immanuel.co/) with possible developer api.. – Immanuel Oct 29 '17 at 21:22
Update: kvstore.io docs can be found here now: https://rapidapi.com/lordkada1/api/kvstore – Carlo Alberto Degli Atti Feb 27 '19 at 19:46
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@Immanuel Your website is actually the one I chose. Great service: simple usage, no annoying sign-up, clean design. Thank you! – Marius Feb 13 '21 at 11:20

Rodney Folz · Answer 3 · 2012-02-08T19:48:08.097

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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:

edited Feb 08 '12 at 19:48

answered Feb 08 '12 at 19:38

Rodney Folz

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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. – mkoryak Feb 08 '12 at 20:36
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What's the problem with OpenKeyval? It seems to meet your criteria. – Rodney Folz Feb 08 '12 at 22:44
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 – mkoryak Feb 09 '12 at 14:47
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There's now Cloudant and Iris Couch for hosting – Peter Tseng Sep 12 '12 at 04:44

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 12 '12 at 04:49

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.

score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 06 '13 at 20:59

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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