On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Sho Fukamachi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The outcome of the previous discussion on this thread seemed to be in favour > of the use of a "followers" table which I thought was a pretty bad idea in > CouchDB. I'd love to hear some defences of that, maybe someone can tell me > what I'm missing... > > Sho
As Damien said, if the user follow many people, its document could get huge and updating it would be expensive cause in couchdb you cannot query or update one "row" only, you need to get and put the whole doc. So if a user following tons of people updates often that wouldn't scale very well.
