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I always am annoyed when I read that CouchDB can "scale up and down". CouchDB has NO internal concept of sharding. The only thing it can do is repliaction. Ri

by rb2k_ 16y ago

I always am annoyed when I read that CouchDB can "scale up and down". CouchDB has NO internal concept of sharding. The only thing it can do is repliaction. Riak and Cassandra can actually scale up and down, CouchDB can scale up and down as much as MySQL can... (or did I miss something?)

couchdb 16y ago
There is a recently open-sourced fork of CouchDB that does the sharding thing. With this addition to the capabilities, CouchDB really can scale up to hundred machine clusters. http://blog.cloudant.com/cloudant-core-is-open-source http://blog.cloudant.com/cloudant-core-is-open-source
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messel 16y ago
update just found a great article on scaling with CouchDB using Lounge http://nosql.mypopescu.com/post/683838234/scaling-couchdb http://nosql.mypopescu.com/post/683838234/scaling-couchdb and a company that provides the service Cloudant: https://cloudant.com/ https://cloudant.com/ Here's another shard manager project, Pillow: http://knuthellan.com/2010/07/14/feature-prioritization-for-pillow-the-couchdb-shard-manager/ http://knuthellan.com/2010/07/14/feature-prioritization-for-... I think the design philosophy for couch is keeping smaller pieces of Big Data synchronized. The sum of all those small pieces is like one larger database.