It was earmarked as the new couchdb backend but from the looks of things these efforts have stalled. I should review the technical issues that were discovered

It was earmarked as the new couchdb backend but from the looks of things these efforts have stalled. I should review the technical issues that were discovered as it felt like a good direction based on comments read across related hn comments. (After a quick google I found https://lists.apache.org/thread/9gby4nr209qc4dzf2hh6xqb0cn1439b7 https://lists.apache.org/thread/9gby4nr209qc4dzf2hh6xqb0cn14... which provides some high level details)