On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 08:35:47AM -0500, Nathan Stott wrote: > answers/opinions inline ... > You'd have to benchmark your particular app to see if couchdb with a > well-thought-out schema out-performed your RDBMS. For some tasks I'm sure > it would. For others, perhaps not. If you're inserting a ton of documents, > couchdb with its bulk insert would almost certainly outperform the RDBMS > from what I understand, though I do not have benchmarks to show this.
At the moment you'll probably find that bulk-inserting documents into couchdb is very fast, but the time to index views is uncomfortably slow. This means that your first view query after adding or updating a lot of data could take minutes or even hours :-(
