On Jun 24, 2009, at 7:55 AM, Elliot Murphy wrote:
On 06/23/2009 10:17 PM, Dale Wiles wrote:
I've been following CouchDB for a while and I'm really impressed
with the way it's coming along.
However, like>90% of the users out there, I'm not a business and I
don't really care about replication and daemons and scary things
that go bump in the kernel. I just need somewhere to put my
address lists and record collection.
Are there any plans, or is it even feasible, to make a serverless
version of CouchDB, in a manor similar to SqLite?
For those who don't know SqLite: CouchDB would be a file or set of
files. It "starts up" when the file is opened and "shuts down"
when the file closes. If you can read the file you can read the
DB. If you can write the file, you an write the DB. Database
locking is handled by the DB.
I think a *lot* of potential casual database users would be
interested in a no hassle/no mystery version of CouchDB they could
play with. It's something to think about.
I totally agree with you that we should get CouchDB running in lots
of places, exactly the places where the delightful SQLite system
runs now.
I don't quite agree that giving up listening on a network port is
necessary to do that though. One of the beautiful things about
CouchDB is the HTTP interface, and a network port is a big part of
that. Even programs running on my phone listen on network ports.
In Ubuntu, we're working to shrink down the Erlang packages to be
small enough to fit on the LiveCD, and in the next version of Ubuntu
we plan to have a CouchDB instance automatically running for every
single user on their desktop. You know, a nice place to put your
address lists and record collection :) If you'd like to follow along
or help out: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Specs/Karmic/IntegratingWithUbuntuOne/
#line-68
In fact, this effort to run a CouchDB for every single user account
on a computer running Ubuntu is why Stuart filed bug https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-393
yesterday.
I see, so this is the reason for running on a random port. There was
speculation about this on #couchdb yesterday. I love Ubuntu,
particularly on IBM Thinkpads. For some reason it's a linux that's
always run well on those laptops. Bundling Erlang/CouchDB is awesome,
good luck with it!
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