> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 08:52, afters <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think your main goal here is to figure out what messages the website is >> intended to send, and to what audiences. As for the design: form follows >> function.
agree. some thoughts to share on that note; as a newcomer to couchdb what attracted me was: - the logo - is there another DB out there with such a cool logo? - the videos :-) - replication is so easy - crash-safe design & simple model for backup/recovery - straightforward conceptual model to work with - REST, JSON, - futon interface makes it so quick to get started these made it really easy to work with - it's like having the data directly in your hands - simplicity of model - e.g. middleware not necessary - curl / http access - schema-free - native JSON storage - couchapp for loading both data & ddocs what complicated it: - differences in the book vs trunk - examples and templates in particular can really slow you down - changeover to mustache.js - there are probably a few people like me lurking who simply are unable to figure out how to make this work in server or client side mode - evently if you're not already a javascript person - give me 6 months & I'll be OK but it's a steep learning curve from ground zero - map/reduce - this takes a bit of getting used to, but when you understand it the logic is clear - how did we ever manage this on traditional RDBMS.. cheers Dave
