On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Tim Tisdall <tisd...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've been running a CouchDB instance for quite a while now, but only on a > single machine. I'm looking at moving my hosting and settings things up in > a distributed fashion. I was hoping someone could point me in the right > direction for what solutions are current and what solutions may actually > make it into the core CouchDB code base (if any). > > I came across couchdb-lounge but as none of the code has been touched for 3 > years I'm guessing it's a nearly dead project. > > I looked at Bigcouch, but I'm a little unsure how you can modify an > existing system (existing Bigcouch DB) to add or remove nodes. Also, is > there any automated way of making a single CouchDB database into a Bigcouch > instance? > > -Tim
Changing the cluster size is still a bit of an ops heavy situation. Generally speaking the easiest method when expanding is to just create a new database once all nodes are up and then replicate the data over. Contracting a cluster would be similar but requires some fiddling with zones and placements when creating the target data for replication.
