ermouth: _bulk_get is not available on Cloudant today but if it lands in CouchDB and has a positive effect on replication then I expect we'll look into supporting it (not my call).
On 15 September 2015 at 16:21, ermouth <[email protected]> wrote: > Wonderful feature, seems that it can reduce replication costs dramatically, > thanks. > > > I've gotten the +1 from Will Holley that our implementation is consistent >> with the proposed CouchDB version > > Does Cloudant already has this endpoint onboard? I‘ve tried to, but failed > – although not sure I did all the things right. > > ermouth > > 2015-09-15 17:09 GMT+03:00 Nolan Lawson <[email protected]>: > >> Hi friends, >> >> I've been working for some time with folks from CouchDB/Cloudant to get an >> implementation of _bulk_get into CouchDB. The goal of the new endpoint is >> to vastly speed up replication by avoiding unnecessary additional HTTP >> requests [1]. >> >> There is already a PR by Alexander Shorin out on CouchDB itself [2], based >> on some discussion of prior art [3] including a similar endpoint in rcouch >> and Couchbase Sync Gateway. >> >> In PouchDB, we implemented both a server-side version in PouchDB Server [4] >> as well as a client-side version [5] which falls back to normal slow GETs >> if it doesn't find a _bulk_get endpoint. >> >> I've gotten the +1 from Will Holley that our implementation is consistent >> with the proposed CouchDB version, so it is very likely that PouchDB will >> ship with support for the endpoint in the next release (5.0.0, sometime >> around October 1st), at which time we'll also release PouchDB Server 1.0.0, >> so that folks can try out the fast new sync. >> >> If you would like to test out the implementation yourself, it's just: >> >> npm install -g pouchdb-server@pouchdb >> /pouchdb-server#use-pouchdb-master >> npm install pouchdb@pouchdb/pouchdb >> >> Or to download the browserified version of the master branch, you can go to >> http://pouchtest.com/nightly . >> >> Please try the proposed implementation and let us know at >> http://slack.pouchdb.com, irc://freenode.net/#pouchdb, or >> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pouchdb if you have any issues >> with >> it. I'm also going to take the time before the next release to test against >> Couchbase Sync Gateway. Although it's passing in our CI [6] I would like to >> confirm that we are using CSG's endpoint as intended. >> >> Cheers, >> Nolan >> >> [1]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-2310 >> [2]: https://github.com/apache/couchdb-chttpd/pull/33 >> [3]: https://github.com/apache/couchdb-couch/pull/18 >> [4]: https://github.com/pouchdb/express-pouchdb/pull/208 >> [5]: https://github.com/pouchdb/pouchdb/pull/4335 >> [6]: https://travis-ci.org/pouchdb/pouchdb/jobs/80300066 >> >> -- >> Nolan Lawson >> nolanlawson.com >> github.com/nolanlawson >>
