Question

I’ve got a database on my server which is about 3mb big. I’d like to ship that with my iphone application.

The most important thing is that I’d like to promote changes to the database (insert, updates, deletes) to the iphone. What’s the best way of doing that? I mean – what is necessary on
– the server
– the client (= iphone)
– between; how to transfer this data?

I’m pretty free in using technologies serverside; right now, I’ve got an sqlite-database on the server filled with the data I’d like to sync to the iphones.

Answer 1

Try using web hooks.

The concept of a WebHook is simple. A
WebHook is an HTTP callback: an HTTP
POST that occurs when something
happens; a simple event-notification
via HTTP POST.

A web application implementing
WebHooks will POST a message to a URL
when certain things happen. When a web
application enables users to register
their own URLs, the users can then
extend, customize, and integrate that
application with their own custom
extensions or even with other
applications around the web. For the
user, WebHooks are a way to receive
valuable information when it happens,
rather than continually polling for
that data and receiving nothing
valuable most of the time. WebHooks
have enormous potential and are
limited only by your imagination! (No,
it can’t wash the dishes. Yet.)

You can find out more on Webhooks here:
http://www.webhooks.org/ and http://webhooks.pbworks.com/