massive replication?

[Miles Fidelman]

A couple of the recent CouchDB powerpoint presentations illustrate 
replication across massive numbers of database instances.  Does that 
represent anything remotely possible, for real? 

We have an application that involves replicating data across very large 
numbers of nodes that are intermittently connected - where we'd like 
collections of data to replicate and synchronize as connectivity 
allows.  Think something like USENET news as an analogy.

I'm trying to sort out whether or not CouchDB is a potential platform.
Thanks very much,

Miles Fidelman


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