Yeah I'm also not really impressed with this first draft. The first 2 chapters seemed more about telling me why rdbms is better. It's a shame too because CouchD

Yeah I'm also not really impressed with this first draft. The first 2 chapters seemed more about telling me why rdbms is better. It's a shame too because CouchDB has a lot of potential that this book isn't doing it credit for. One of the guys working on it gave a really good interview on Twit back in April. Look at twit.tv under FLOSS from earlier this year.