On Aug 3, 2012, at 1:54 AM, Jan Fajerski <[email protected]> wrote:
> What Javascript engine is used, SpiderMonkey. > how is workload distributed (if at all) I don't believe it is. Erlang itself is good at multiprocessing, but it runs SpiderMonkey in a separate process. I don't know whether it spawns more than one of these processes. In any case there is none of the fully-distributed mapping the way Google does it where map requests get farmed out to multiple computers. CouchDB doesn't use M/R as a way to process ridiculously large data sets, it uses it as a way to flexibly query semi-structured data. [Disclaimer: I'm not an expert on the implementation of CouchDB.] > May the dev list be a better place to ask such questions? Most likely, yes. —Jens
