CouchDB is a great database. It unfairly got a bad rap for performance/scaling due to the client libraries (I know Ruby for sure) being written so poorly. I've

CouchDB is a great database. It unfairly got a bad rap for performance/scaling due to the client libraries (I know Ruby for sure) being written so poorly. I've used it on a few projects with great success. I'm hoping I can try out clustering features in 2.0 sometime soon.