This doc has a bit on replication:
http://horicky.blogspot.com/2008/10/couchdb-implementation.html
On Feb 17, 2009, at 12:44 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:
I'd like to learn how CouchDB's replication protocol works. Not at
the implementation level (I don't read Erlang well enough for
that!) but are there any design docs that describe what's happening
architecturally?
Conceptually, I can imagine it being based on an "_all_docs_by_seq"
query, where the pulling server remembers the last sequence ID it's
pulled in the past, grabs all the newer docs, and puts them to its
local database. Is there more to it than that?
—Jens
