I like everything you've said in these last three messages which were meant to be one. :) You should make it a blog post. For real.
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 00:32, Zdravko Gligic <[email protected]> wrote: > oh, i hate gmail, as it seems to react to certain key combinations ... > > Focus - It seems that CouchDB has been purposely designed with "single > mindedness in mind". The approach seems to be that it can be most > efficient if its various functions and its various tasks do small > amounts of work in the most efficient way possible. So, it would seem > that writes keep on writing to the end of file, instead of flipping > through it and trying to over-write and update in place existing docs. > Again, in order to be as efficient as it can be with those writes, it > foregoes updating the views (the same way that an RDBMS would update > all of the related indices as part of its record update) and leaves it > for another process which will concentrate on doing just that. So, it > seems that "context switching" or not having to do much of such > switching is where it gets lots of it processing efficiency. > > Again, I am most anxious to see how my noob understandings check out > with technical realities. ;) > > HTH, > teslan >
