Current CouchDB state?

[Wout Mertens]

Hi there,

I'm a big fan of CouchDB and I want to use it in production but I'm  
holding out for a somewhat stable release. In preparation however I  
would like to know where CouchDB stands in High Availability and/or  
Scalability.

I know that Erlang promises that you can run a single program across  
multiple CPUs and even systems at the same time, and you can upgrade  
the program while it is handling requests. I presume Erlang also  
handles the case where a system goes offline?

Furthermore, I know that the view server runs separately from the  
CouchDB process, and it can in principle split the map and reduce  
phases across many compute nodes.

Finally, I know that the replication works. Is there a "standard" way  
of using it with supporting programs?


So my question is: How much of this is already a reality? Is any  
testing being done for these scenarios? Is this on the roadmap for 1.0?

Thanks,

Wout.