> Hi everyone, > > if you want to submit a link for this week's CouchDB Weekly News (especially > content which > has not been shared on the MLs yet), please send it to me until Thursday, > September 11, > 11am UTC+2. > > Thanks in advance, and have a good day today! > > Lena
How does CouchDB store my stuff? CouchDB’s storage engine is based on the venerable B-tree, now used in and the on-disk format is appended to on each update. There are some excellent posts out there with a lot more detail: - http://docs.couchdb.org/en/latest/intro/consistency.html#the-key-to-your-data - http://damienkatz.net/2006/12/couchdb_technic_1.html - http://horicky.blogspot.com/2008/10/couchdb-implementation.html - http://ayende.com/blog/3608/more-couchdb-reading-btree-lookup - http://blog.kodekabuki.com/post/132952897/couchdb-naked For B-trees in general, and some interesting variants, read up on: - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-tree - http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs3110/2011sp/recitations/rec24-B-trees/B-trees.htm - http://www.me.net.nz/blog/btrees-are-the-new-black/ - http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/aguilera/distributed-btree-vldb2008.pdf - http://vldb.org/pvldb/vol5/p884_benjaminsowell_vldb2012.pdf — Dave Cottlehuber [email protected] Sent from my Couch
