On 14.05.2010, at 2:16, c.Kleinhuis wrote: > Alexander Uvarov schrieb: >> >> Good: >> >> 1. Schema-less is awesome for a lot of applications >> 2. RESTful JSON store >> 3. Document attachments >> 4. Views are fast >> 5. Full text search "out of the box" with couchdb-lucene >> >> Bad: >> >> 1. Does not support transactions and AFAIK there are no plans to directly >> support transactional bulk document API >> > this is handled via eventual consistency as far as i know, and will never be > adressed ;) > with the benefit of fast responses
Too brave. Things are not as simple as they seem. > >> 2. It's impossible to just say "update/delete all people where some field >> LIKE something", but actually not a problem > ok > > what about server configuration ? compared to mysql/hibernate/spring/java ? > as far as i can tell for windows, it worked nicely with the installer, any > known problems > when setting up a server farm, or a single system ? ! i mean, how hard would > it be for > an advanced admin to set up a system with couchdb ? > It depends. But this kind of question should answer more experienced member. First of all, I don't see any reasons to run couchdb on windows in production. It's pretty simple If you are going to set up N nodes replicating to each other and run nginx on top of them. Packages are available for Linux (both couch and erlang), also it's dead simple to build couchdb from scratch.