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Sync with Couchbase Lite

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      Use Sync Gateway to sync with Couchbase Lite apps.

      Syncing with Couchbase Lite Apps

      Couchbase Lite client applications use a Replicator process to synchronize their local database, through a Sync Gateway database, to a remote Couchbase Server database (server- or cloud-based) — see: Figure 1.

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      Figure 1. Sync from Cloud/Server to Edge
      Pull Replication

      This is the process by which clients running Couchbase Lite download database changes from the remote (server) source database to the local target database

      Push Replication

      This is the process by which clients running Couchbase Lite upload database changes from the local source database to the remote (server) target database

      For more on how to build Couchbase Lite applications that use Sync Gateway replication, see the documentation for the appropriate language:

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