I think CouchDB is vastly underrated as a hacker database for toy projects. We're talking about an incredibly simple database, with powerful replication abilities, with brain-dead administration, and one-click offsite backup and synchronization, that requires no real client libraries to work with. It makes it comically easy for me to hack on toy projects on the road, then sync them right back up afterwards when I'm done.<p>I know CouchDB sometimes gets some flak for not performing as well as other NoSQLs. Anecdotally, that feels as if it's gotten a lot better over time, and this BigCouch merge may improve things further, but sometimes there's a case to be made for using something just because it's fun and easy to work with.
This is incredibly good news. CouchDB is a fantastic database that doesn't get the attention it deserves. The best part about this merge is that CouchDB will get the scaling benefits that BigCouch offers. The load balancing and clustering of BigCouch is going to be incredibly useful for scaling CouchDB.
I built BigCouch from source and played with it a few years ago. Cloudant is a cool company, and good of them to open source a big piece of their infrastructure.<p>I am taking a fresh look at CouchDB. I have always had an aversion to JavaScript, which is what CouchDB views are written in, but lately I have been getting into JS more because of Meteor and Ember.js. Off topic, but I find using a subset of JS, and keeping JSLint running in IntelliJ makes for a nice dev environment.
Anyone familiar w/ the CouchDB community, can you describe how well it's working? From afar it seems to be a bit rudder less, but I could be misinterpreting the situation.
I'm just using CouchDB right now for my side project. Cloudant is offering really great service although they don't provide multi-tenant service in Japan. But I'll go for Cloudant unless latency between Japan and Singapore matters.<p>By the way, I posted another link three days ago.
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