rnewson

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   by rnewson 15y ago

   CouchDB did not merge with membase. You are thinking of Couch One, the company. CouchDB remains an Apache project.
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   by rnewson 15y ago

   atomicity doesn't mean, or imply, instantaneous. However, a document update in CouchDB is fully ACID (including the A of Atomicity). People often confuse transactions around multiple changes with ACID for reasons that I cannot fathom. Couch
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   by rnewson 15y ago

   And BigCouch has sharding too (edited to add: for data and views)
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   by rnewson 15y ago

   For my part (and I'm biased) a database that doesn't consider durability paramount shouldn't be considered a database at all.
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   by rnewson 16y ago

   My counterpoint is that Cloudant test and harden the CouchDB that we embed, it's not, for various reasons, a verbatim copy of CouchDB itself. That said, vanilla CouchDB is quite stable. While there are always bugs, I don't recognize the sys
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   by rnewson 16y ago

   Describing Bigcouch as a bit of hack while admitting you've not used it seems a little unfair. That said, it's very valuable to hear how other people see our product. Without doing a full-on sales pitch (I am not a salesman and do not portr
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   by rnewson 16y ago

   There are several reasons for CouchDB's use of a single, strictly append-only file, but the b-tree is not one of them. In fact, it's one of CouchDB's most clever tricks to store a b-tree in an append-only fashion (it's far more common to up