Massive waste of space though. LMDB is also copy-on-write and crash-proof but doesn't require compaction like CouchDB does. http://symas.com/mdb/ http://symas.

Massive waste of space though. LMDB is also copy-on-write and crash-proof but doesn't require compaction like CouchDB does. http://symas.com/mdb/ http://symas.com/mdb/ Read the LDAPCon 2011 paper (and slides) to see how it works and why it's better than CouchDB.