Hi, On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Jason Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > CouchDB gives you a lot more for > free (flexible schema, replication and in general designed for high > scalability) so I would recommend giving it a try. >
Sure will have a try later on. >> 2. Is Memcached useless if I am using couchdb? > > I'm guessing memcached would still be useful as a caching layer to squeeze > that extra bit of speed if you have the RAM, but maybe someone else can > speak from experience. > The reason I ask is since couchdb output JSON, so ideal case is to let users contact couchdb directly in term of scalability. If adding a cache layer using Memcached which eat data from HTTP response seems too much overhead involved as Memcached is a also key-value store. Don't know if couchdb has some kind of query cache and how to tune? Oh..maybe I should use squid? Howard
