Github user kxepal commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/couchdb-mem3/pull/8#discussion_r26453600
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## mem3
-Mem3 is the node membership application for clustered [CouchDB][1]. It is
used in [BigCouch][2] and tracks two very important things for the cluster:
+Mem3 is the node membership application for clustered [CouchDB][1]. It is
used in CouchDB version >= 2.0 and tracks two very important things for the
cluster:
1. member nodes
2. node/shards mappings for each database
Both the nodes and shards are tracked in node-local couch databases.
Shards are heavily used, so an ETS cache is also maintained for low-latency
lookups. The nodes and shards are synchronized via continuous CouchDB
replication, which serves as 'gossip' in Dynamo parlance. The shards ETS cache
is kept in sync based on membership and database event listeners.
-A very important point to make here is that BigCouch does not necessarily
divide up each database into equal shards across the nodes of a cluster. For
instance, in a 20-node cluster, you may have the need to create a small
database with very few documents. For efficiency reasons, you may create your
database with Q=4 and keep the default of N=3. This means you only have 12
shards total, so 8 nodes will hold none of the data for this database. Given
this feature, we even shard use out across the cluster by altering the 'start'
node for the database's shards.
+A very important point to make here is that CouchDB >= 2.0 does not
necessarily divide up each database into equal shards across the nodes of a
cluster. For instance, in a 20-node cluster, you may have the need to create a
small database with very few documents. For efficiency reasons, you may create
your database with Q=4 and keep the default of N=3. This means you only have
12 shards total, so 8 nodes will hold none of the data for this database.
Given this feature, we even shard use out across the cluster by altering the
'start' node for the database's shards.
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How about split long text by right 80 chars margin?
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