http://dejanglozic.com/2014/04/14/we-dont-have-mongodb-is-couchdb-ok/
"Due to some legal issues (AGPL license of MongoDB server is giving our lawyers heartburn), we were slow to make that instinctive choice ourselves. Then IBM bought Cloudant, and it was an easy decision - use our very own NoSQL DB, and let somebody else manage it to boot. True master-master replication can't hurt either." An interesting perspective in there about how Cloudant's Lucene integration feels "unnatural" or "unpure". -- Noah Slater https://twitter.com/nslater
