Hi all, A progress update: I've tried the Erlang version from the Debian Stretch repo and then installing CouchDB from source and all seems to work well, so perhaps there is a problem with the Erlang package from Erlang Solutions repository?
-Eric. On 24 January 2018 at 01:47, Russell Branca <chewbra...@apache.org> wrote: > Fwiw I got CouchDB 2.x running on a Raspian Raspberry Pi 3.b recently > without much fuss. Pretty sure I compiled Erlang from source. > > > -Russell > > On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 4:12 AM Eric Clack <ericcl...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi Michael, Ben and Johs, > > Thanks for your responses. > > > > I've found for my (admittedly small) projects Couch works pretty well on > > the Pi (version 2). It's a great solution to the problem of where to > store > > metadata, and how to query it easily. The only performance problem I saw > > was when reducing and grouping queries, e.g. here I used a memo to cache > > results: > > > > https://github.com/ericclack/clojure-photo-bank/blob/ > master/src/clj/clojure_photo_bank/models/db.clj#L45 > > ...running the query took about 5 seconds for around 4000 records. That's > > not great, but for everything else Couch was easily fast enough. > > > > I'm going to explore Erlang packages for Raspbian and then look at > > compiling a few different versions of CouchDB to see if I can at least > get > > some good bug reports to the right team. > > > > Many thanks, > > -Eric. > > > > > > > > On 19 January 2018 at 08:11, Johs Ensby <j...@b2w.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi Eric, > > > > > > I think it would be great if you found a way to run couch on Raspberry > > Pi, > > > preferably Ubuntu Mate. > > > Performance will surely not be great, but more important I would think > it > > > could be a great demonstration of how CouchDB could be a common > platform > > > from big clusters in the cloud to your very private system. > > > > > > johs:) > > > > > > > > > > On 16 Jan 2018, at 23:28, benjamin.bast...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > > > > I did this back quite a few years ago, and from what I remember IO > > > > performance was pretty dreadful on an SD card. I'm not sure what the > > > status > > > > of COUCHDB-3287 is, but maybe a different storage engine would offer > > > better > > > > performance? > > > > > > > > Ben > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 2:08 PM, Michael Fair < > mich...@daclubhouse.net > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > >> This is similar to running Couch on mobile phones. > > > >> Perhaps an alternative is starting with another "Couch Compatible" > > > database > > > >> that's lighter weight? > > > >> > > > >> Perhaps PouchDB running on Node.js comes to mind. > > > >> This implements the replication/sync protocol between Couch > compatible > > > >> databases, without being an erlang based, sharded, distributed > > backend. > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 2:44 AM, Eric Clack < > ericcl...@googlemail.com > > > > > > >> wrote: > > > >> > > > >>> Hello CouchDB devs, > > > >>> > > > >>> Is there any interest in getting CouchDB running on the Raspberry > Pi > > > (an > > > >>> AMD platform), running Raspbian Stretch? > > > >>> > > > >>> See my post here: > > > >>> https://github.com/apache/couchdb/issues/1103 > > > >>> > > > >>> As I said in the post, I have time to contribute to the work and am > > > >>> interested in learning more about CouchDB, Erlang, etc. > > > >>> > > > >>> Right now it would be useful for me to gauge interest as I need to > > know > > > >>> whether I should investigate alternative databases for my Pi > > projects. > > > >>> > > > >>> Many thanks, > > > >>> -Eric. > > > >>> > > > >>> -- > > > >>> Eric Clack > > > >>> e...@bn7.net > > > >>> East Sussex, England. > > > >>> > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Eric Clack > > e...@bn7.net > > East Sussex, England. > > > -- Eric Clack e...@bn7.net East Sussex, England.
