Thanks Mathias, it is a good starting point, What I am more interested though are the technical details. What Javascript engine is used, who does the system deal with failures, how is workload distributed (if at all) and other such questions. May the dev list be a better place to ask such questions?
Best Jan On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 07:47:52AM +0200, Mathias Leppich wrote: > Hi Jan, > > I think the Definitive Guide [1] gives a good understanding what's behind > CouchDB's views, the indexes that are incrementally generated by a MapReduce > functions written in JavaScript (or any other language). > > [1] http://guide.couchdb.org/draft/views.html > > - mathias > > On Aug 2, 2012, at 12:12 , Jan Fajerski wrote: > > > Hi, > > I am researching map reduce implemenations for distributed database systems. > > Is there a paper or documentation on how this is done in CouchDB? Or is the > > source code the answer? If so would you be so kind to point me to a good > > start > > in the source code? > > > > Many thanks in advance, > > Jan >
