Oh, sorry Adam, I wasn't told you're one of project developers/managers. Thankyou for your reply.
Jan: yes, it could be another type of use. It's, we could say, load balancing. But think, and Adam seems confirming this, that another important feature of non relational dbms is the ability to scale in size, without limits (and a single server's capacity is a limit). Giorgio 2009/10/26 Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> > > On 26 Oct 2009, at 17:49, AnotherNetFellow wrote: > > It seems an unofficial patch, isn't it? >> > > couchdb-lounge is a full third party project on top of CouchDB, not a > patch. > > > > The CouchDB description states that it is a distributed db. So shouldn't >> it >> integrate a distribution engine to spare databases on many servers? >> > > There are different understandings of "distributed". CouchDB's idea is that > distributing full data sets between nodes is an equally valid use-case (and > IMHO a much more common one). > > That said, Adam already said CouchDB will have partitioning and it's > a good thing :) > > Cheers > Jan > -- > > > > > >> Thankyou >> >> 2009/10/26 Adam Kocoloski <[email protected]> >> >> On Oct 26, 2009, at 10:50 AM, Coffman, Timothy A wrote: >>> >>> I am collecting information and doing some proofs-of-concept in >>> >>>> preparation for suggesting CouchDB as a replacement for a 20-year-old >>>> house-developed document system. One topic I will need to address goes >>>> like this: >>>> >>>> (1) How big can one CouchDB database file get? >>>> >>>> >>> Unlimited, although performance will get ugly once the indexes don't fit >>> in >>> RAM. >>> >>> >>> (2) How could I store one CouchDB logical database across multiple disks >>> >>>> or machines? >>>> >>>> >>> Multiple disks: RAID >>> >>> Multiple machines: CouchDB-Lounge (not yet fully 0.10 compatible, but >>> they're working on it) >>> >>> http://tilgovi.github.com/couchdb-lounge/ >>> >>> Best, Adam >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> -- >> AnotherNetFellow >> Email: [email protected] >> > > -- -- AnotherNetFellow Email: [email protected]
