what kind of data structures were they? Although I don't think I've hit 200gb (well, at least without blobs), I really like using couchdb as an object store. T

what kind of data structures were they? Although I don't think I've hit 200gb (well, at least without blobs), I really like using couchdb as an object store. To get around limitations in CouchDB views, I usually just have ElasticSearch index the data in near 'real-time'. I now think it actually makes a fair bit of sense to have storage and indexing happen in different applications, because it allows you to tune their performance and add/remove servers to the clusters separately. Also, couchdb's replication _works_