On Oct 19, 2008, at 11:58 PM, Antony Blakey wrote:
Alternatively, you could use some form of distributed voting
algorithm, but that's a lot more work and you have to be careful to
get a correct implementation.
Given the nature of CouchDB, and the fact that it already provides
the interface to the data cloud, providing generic core services
such as distributed voting with layered services such as global
uniqueness indexes, would be a logical extension.
i have to agree with you there - it does seem like a huge barrier to
developing even the most trivial application and it'd be huge relief
to have this baked in. that said it's a *hard* problem so perhaps
it's asking too much. not sure about that...
in any case a web service really might make good sense.
cheers.
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