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

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.