Are there any recent primary sources to draw from? Wikipedia editors really dislike large edits without references, even if they improve the article.
On 15 April 2012 07:19, Jonathan Porta <[email protected]> wrote: > Any better with this: > > "Apache CouchDB, commonly referred to as CouchDB, is an open source > NoSQL database that uses JSON for documents, JavaScript for MapReduce > queries, and HTTP for an API.[1] CouchDB was first released in 2005 > and later became an Apache project in 2008. > > Unlike in a relational database, CouchDB does not store data and > relationships in tables, but instead stores structured data as JSON > documents. > > CouchDB implements a form of Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC) > in order to avoid the need to lock the database file during writes. > Conflicts are left to the user to resolve. > > Other features are ACID semantics with eventual consistency, > MapReduce, incremental replication and fault-tolerance. CouchDB ships > with Futon, a web based administration console." > > > Jonathan Porta > > > > On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Robert Newson <[email protected]> wrote: >> Certainly very crufty in places. The Talk page contains unchallenged >> (and untrue) assertions that we're all moving to Couchbase server too! >> >> B. >> >> >> On 14 April 2012 16:46, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hey, >>> >>> Does someone want to take a look at the CouchDB Wikipedia article? >>> >>> The opening paragraph is terrible: >>> >>> "Apache CouchDB, commonly referred to as CouchDB, is an open source >>> document-oriented database NoSQL database system. It could be considered >>> similar to MongoDB." >>> >>> A document-oriented database NoSQL database system? What. We should also >>> not be compared to MongoDB in the first sentence. Or again, later in the >>> article. It should be sufficient to let CouchDB stand on its own merits. >>> Much like how the MongoDB article does not make constant comparisons with >>> CouchDB. >>> >>> There are a number of factually incorrect statements that need cleaning up >>> too. Like the statement that Damien Katz is our lead developer. It should, >>> instead, be noted that he retired from our PMC. Also, IBM do not directly >>> financially support the project, nor do any other companies. Individual >>> developers are not sponsored either. The only sponsorship our project has >>> is listed on the ASF sponsorship page. >>> >>> http://www.apache.org/foundation/thanks.html >>> >>> There are a few other problems too, like outdated references to Couchbase >>> and UQL. >>> >>> In general, there is probably a lot of love and attention someone could >>> pour in to this. I notice that it was updated last week to include the new >>> version number. So someone presumably has their eye on the article. We just >>> need a little bit more work putting in to it, I think. >>> >>> I would do this myself, but I worry that I have a strong conflict of >>> interests. >>> >>> Anyone calm and rational and distant enough want to take this on? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> N
