If you go with CouchDB, you can use CouchApp which is a set of scripts for deploying an application directly to a CouchDB database. In essence, you skip the middleware and use CouchDB's views, lists, and show functions along with clientside JavaScript to implement the whole app. If your app works in this architecture, it's surprisingly refreshing, simple and cool.
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