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Yeah, Couch is seriously underrated. HTTP API, Master-Master, append-only, these are things to love if you cherish your web app's data. I wish Couchbase hadn't

by Andrex 14y ago

Yeah, Couch is seriously underrated. HTTP API, Master-Master, append-only, these are things to love if you cherish your web app's data. I wish Couchbase hadn't abandoned the Apache version, or rather, I wish someone else had stepped in to take their place as "the Couch company" the same way 10gen is for Mongo. Cloudant is close, but their BigCouch stuff still isn't merged yet as far as I know, so if you go with them you're still using some weird Couch fork instead of the open source version. Which might be more of a psychological problem than an actual one, but it makes me really uneasy about the Couch ecosystem they're the only thing we have that's close to a gold-standard champion.

hasenj 14y ago
Yea, it's unbelievable how underrated it is. I searched Reddit for "couchdb", and there's pretty much no new entry since 2 years ago. I almost thought couch was dead.
- Andrex 14y ago
  It's definitely really hard to find out what's going on with Couch lately. Even checking the bug tracker isn't very helpful for finding out what's going into the next version and when it's releasing.
gizzlon 14y ago
They lost me when they started to shift "everything" towards mobile a while back, maybe 3 years ago. Do they still focus a lot on mobile? And what's the deal with CouchDB vs. CouchBase?
- Andrex 14y ago
  Mobile is a focus insofar as the master-master sync working well for mobile apps where the user may be online most of the time, but offline a significant amount as well. I believe TouchDB is where they're focusing exclusively on mobile now, and it's less of a focus with the main branch. As for CouchDB vs. Couchbase, Couchbase is a fork of CouchDB headed by CouchDB's creators Damien Katz and J. Chris Anderson. Couchbase basically throws a lot of the nice things of CouchDB out the window (such as the HTTP API) in order to integrate Membase feature. This is worth reading: http://www.couchbase.com/couchdb http://www.couchbase.com/couchdb
  - sbisbee 14y ago
    To be even more specific while still generalizing, Couchbase is the Membase product with a heavily modified CouchDB swapped in for the storage mechanism (previously SQLite). As for the leaders, it's a smattering of CouchOne/Couch.io and Membase/Northscale people. Or, as a friend put it, CouchOneBase.io. Cheers.
- sbisbee 14y ago
  Just to clear up one point that was semi-made already, "they" meaning Apache CouchDB isn't shifting anything toward mobile. They're still making the same great product from before. The mobile stuff that you're referring to is CouchBase's. It's a completely different product and their work should not be confused with Apache CouchDB's, though it often is.

by Andrex 14y ago

hasenj 14y ago

Yea, it's unbelievable how underrated it is. I searched Reddit for "couchdb", and there's pretty much no new entry since 2 years ago. I almost thought couch was dead.

Andrex 14y ago
It's definitely really hard to find out what's going on with Couch lately. Even checking the bug tracker isn't very helpful for finding out what's going into the next version and when it's releasing.

gizzlon 14y ago

They lost me when they started to shift "everything" towards mobile a while back, maybe 3 years ago. Do they still focus a lot on mobile? And what's the deal with CouchDB vs. CouchBase?

Andrex 14y ago
Mobile is a focus insofar as the master-master sync working well for mobile apps where the user may be online most of the time, but offline a significant amount as well. I believe TouchDB is where they're focusing exclusively on mobile now, and it's less of a focus with the main branch. As for CouchDB vs. Couchbase, Couchbase is a fork of CouchDB headed by CouchDB's creators Damien Katz and J. Chris Anderson. Couchbase basically throws a lot of the nice things of CouchDB out the window (such as the HTTP API) in order to integrate Membase feature. This is worth reading: http://www.couchbase.com/couchdb http://www.couchbase.com/couchdb
- sbisbee 14y ago
  To be even more specific while still generalizing, Couchbase is the Membase product with a heavily modified CouchDB swapped in for the storage mechanism (previously SQLite). As for the leaders, it's a smattering of CouchOne/Couch.io and Membase/Northscale people. Or, as a friend put it, CouchOneBase.io. Cheers.
sbisbee 14y ago
Just to clear up one point that was semi-made already, "they" meaning Apache CouchDB isn't shifting anything toward mobile. They're still making the same great product from before. The mobile stuff that you're referring to is CouchBase's. It's a completely different product and their work should not be confused with Apache CouchDB's, though it often is.