Hi all, This is a teaser - the rest will be coming over the next day or two. These are the comments I gathered from a survey i did on this list in Nov 09 Sorry for the delay.
In the interim, as many of you may know I accepted a position at Couchio to basically help CouchDB users become even more awesome. I'll talk about that in a seperate email but for now here's what you all said :- I might end up putting these up on the Couchio web site - to show the world how happy people are using CouchDB. Here's what people said as to why they use CouchDB/what they like about CouchDB, in my survey on the user list. "It solves the custom index problem like noone else has." "The network link between our factory and head office was dicey, by using couchdb it didn't matter if we lost the connection for 1/2 day, since it was just resync when it was back up and running." "It makes my life SO much easier when developing applications. I had to design a SQL scheme for a client in third normal form the other day, writing JOIN queries, etc. and I hated my life for that. Then I wrote them another application of equal complexity in half the time." "CouchDB appeals because (1) it is an Apache project; (2) it is written in Erlang, a language which is distributed in nature and has built-in concurrency; (3) CouchDB's use of standard web technologies HTTP, JavaScript and JSON; (4) CouchDB's RESTful JSON API; (5) its replication abilities; (6) its use of key/values pairs; (7) its use of MapReduce for querying." "This is commercial software." "It really is Relaxing" "The map/reduce and document model that couch uses is much better for some of our workflows (monitoring and long term statistics collection) then a relational database." "It's great :)" and finally ... drum roll .... "Cause its awesome." ------ If you said one of these things and don't want it to turn up on the Couchio web site pl email me at [email protected] off the list and I will remove what you said - but you'll have to tell me which one of these it was :-). I didn't take the survey myself but I should have. Here's what I would have said. "We used CouchDB as the primary database for http://aimpl.org. Unknown to us we were written up on Slashdot and Slashdotted. CouchDB did not even hiccup. Nothing needed to be restarted. All this was on a single lowest end EC2 instance that also had the staging server running on it. " [[ I liked the product so much I joined the company :-) ]] I am creating Google charts and widgets with results from the survey so you can embed them and use them in your blog posts for evangelism. These will be coming over the next day or two. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Nitin Borwankar [email protected]
