The Core of CouchDB — It’s Easy

Jan Lehnardt - jan@apache.org (Jan) - October 02, 2009

From #couchdb on Freenode:

 

balint: so my presentation at the Hungarian Web Conf. is tomorrow and I am sure people would like to see something about performance

 
 

balint: (I know, I know: http://jan.prima.de/plok/archives/176-Caveats-of-Evaluating-Databases.html)

 
 

balint: it would be great to explain what CouchDB excels in (I guess retrieving by key from views is one area, scalability is another)

 
 

jan____: balint: CouchDB makes everything appear easy on the outside. Development in couchdb is easy, because of the schema free nature and the HTTP interface.

 
 

jan____: processing lots of data is easy with views. not breaking your server is easy with show and list functions

 
 

jan____: backups & failover are easy with replication

 
 

jan____: scaling is easy with HTTP, replication & views again

 
 

jan____: operation is easy because CouchDB consists of few, well defined parts. if it fails, you know why and where and what to do

 
 

jan____: and it is easy to keep your data safe, the storage engine is extremely robust.



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