it doesn't have any built-in revisioning like CouchDB This is probably one of the most mis-understood features of CouchDB. It's not a revision per-se. It's a f

it doesn't have any built-in revisioning like CouchDB This is probably one of the most mis-understood features of CouchDB. It's not a revision per-se. It's a feature to support MVCC. It's not meant to show the history of the document over time and it's not guaranteed to be there for all time. If you compact the database the past revisions will be deleted. Referring to the revisions as a feature is somewhat of a misnomer. They are there to enable a feature(MVCC and as a per document consistency check on writes) but aren't really a feature in and of themselves.