Couchbase may have involved the creators of Apache CouchDB but they are only lightly related these days (mostly some remnants of replication and map-reduce conc

Couchbase may have involved the creators of Apache CouchDB but they are only lightly related these days (mostly some remnants of replication and map-reduce concepts). Both have move some distance since then so it's best to assume that CouchDB != Couchbase. (A most annoying name clash but that's that.) What is being talked about here is the 2.0 release which is under development. It integrates IBM Cloudant's clustering layer which was previously called BigCouch. It's been a long road but it's good to see the C in couch (Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware) finally get supported. IMO, the HTTP API code in the project is probably the biggest jungle left mostly untouched from the earlier days of CouchDB and is ripe for a major cleanup. It's not surprising to see bottlenecks like this and it's great to see the author find a reasonable fix for the time being.