I wish this article had some hard numbers for availability, performance, and the size of their data as opposed to hand-waving. Shameless plug: If you're lookin

I wish this article had some hard numbers for availability, performance, and the size of their data as opposed to hand-waving. Shameless plug: If you're looking to benchmark or load test CouchDB a bit, I wrote one at https://github.com/mgp/iron-cushion https://github.com/mgp/iron-cushion. Hopefully someone out there will use this to decide if CouchDB's performance meets their needs, because migrating away from any database is painful...