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CouchDB NoSQL Database Ready for Production Use

16 points by twism 16y ago

mark_l_watson 16y ago
Wow, misleading title. CouchDB has been used in production by many users for a long time. 1.0 is not a magic number for versions.
- zacharydanger 16y ago
  semver.org -- Oh it's not is it?
- Hexstream 16y ago
  1.0 is a magic number for versions. A lot of people will magically start to treat you as a real contender when you release it, even if you've been viable for several months or even years.
jperras 16y ago
"The first fully production-ready nonrelational, or NoSQL, database, called CouchDB [...]" It's amazing how little research went into that first, very bold, statement. There have been quite a few non-relational datastores that have been released before CouchDB. Even if we restrict it to only document stores, we still have MongoDB which was released as 'stable' (1.0) on the 27th of August, 2009.
- alexpopescu 16y ago
  PR... sucks :(
- ryanpetrich 16y ago
  Berkeley DB comes to mind; it's been around much longer than MongoDB.
- paulgb 16y ago
  I think lines like that should serve to remind us that journalists probably only know as much about law, finance, or science as they do technology. It's just that their ignorance is more obvious when they write about topics we know about.
- shoover 16y ago
  And if we don't restrict it to document stores, probably dozens or hundreds of production non-relational databases.
shoover 16y ago
It worked fine on Windows at least a year ago when that build was in the same unofficial and unsupported state it is in now (http://books.couchdb.org/relax/appendix/installing-on-windows http://books.couchdb.org/relax/appendix/installing-on-window...). What has changed in a year that makes it suddenly "production ready" on Windows?
rosenbergdm 16y ago
While there are a _number_ of 'in-production' right now, the one I can personally speak to is at https://connamara.cloudant.com/cme/_design/app/index.html https://connamara.cloudant.com/cme/_design/app/index.html [disclaimer: this is my employer]. For what it's worth, I must say that I was very impressed today with how much 'better behaved' this release was in comparison to bother previous "major" releases (0.11 for example) _and_ recent trunk snapshots. In particular, they seem to have ironed out the nagging dependency issues couch had displayed on debian-based installations and are now reliably passing all of the unit / end-to-end tests. Great work.

16 points by twism 16y ago

Wow, misleading title. CouchDB has been used in production by many users for a long time. 1.0 is not a magic number for versions.

zacharydanger 16y ago
semver.org -- Oh it's not is it?
Hexstream 16y ago
1.0 is a magic number for versions. A lot of people will magically start to treat you as a real contender when you release it, even if you've been viable for several months or even years.

jperras 16y ago

"The first fully production-ready nonrelational, or NoSQL, database, called CouchDB [...]" It's amazing how little research went into that first, very bold, statement. There have been quite a few non-relational datastores that have been released before CouchDB. Even if we restrict it to only document stores, we still have MongoDB which was released as 'stable' (1.0) on the 27th of August, 2009.

alexpopescu 16y ago
PR... sucks :(
ryanpetrich 16y ago
Berkeley DB comes to mind; it's been around much longer than MongoDB.
paulgb 16y ago
I think lines like that should serve to remind us that journalists probably only know as much about law, finance, or science as they do technology. It's just that their ignorance is more obvious when they write about topics we know about.
shoover 16y ago
And if we don't restrict it to document stores, probably dozens or hundreds of production non-relational databases.

shoover 16y ago

It worked fine on Windows at least a year ago when that build was in the same unofficial and unsupported state it is in now (http://books.couchdb.org/relax/appendix/installing-on-windows http://books.couchdb.org/relax/appendix/installing-on-window...). What has changed in a year that makes it suddenly "production ready" on Windows?

rosenbergdm 16y ago

While there are a _number_ of 'in-production' right now, the one I can personally speak to is at https://connamara.cloudant.com/cme/_design/app/index.html https://connamara.cloudant.com/cme/_design/app/index.html [disclaimer: this is my employer]. For what it's worth, I must say that I was very impressed today with how much 'better behaved' this release was in comparison to bother previous "major" releases (0.11 for example) _and_ recent trunk snapshots. In particular, they seem to have ironed out the nagging dependency issues couch had displayed on debian-based installations and are now reliably passing all of the unit / end-to-end tests. Great work.