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CouchDB was inspired by Lotus Notes, and created by an ex-Lotus Notes developer. https://www.wired.com/2012/12/couchdb/ https://www.wired.com/2012/12/couchdb/

• jchanimal 8y ago
  One critical thing CouchDB solved that (I heard) was an issue with Notes is availability during sync. CouchDB streams changes while you work, but Notes apps (used to?) have to pause to sync. Source: I helped develop CouchDB, but haven't really used Notes.
  • gadders 8y ago
    I used to be a Notes Developer (i.e. wrote Notes applications, rather than wrote the code for Notes itself). From what I remember, replication used to take place in the background. You'd refresh your document view (or whatever) and new documents would appear. If two people were editing the same document in different replicas of the same database, then you would get two copies of the document with one labelled as a "replication or save conflict".
    • nradov 8y ago
      Handling of replication conflicts is configurable. You can tell the database engine to automatically merge documents if the conflict didn't impact the same field, or to automatically delete the older change.
      • gadders 8y ago
        Fair point. Not sure if I ever turned it on though.
  • nradov 8y ago
    Domino databases have always been fully accessible to applications during replication.
• Graphguy 8y ago
  + IBM acquired Cloudant, which is fully CouchDB compatible, and is based off Couch.
  • splatcollision 8y ago
    Couchdb and Cloudant are awesome awesome databases, and I'm staggered that they have a legacy of any kind from Notes shocked