On Jun 20, 2013, at 1:32 PM, Jens Alfke <[email protected]> wrote: > The wiki documentation of the _replicate API says: > >> As of CouchDB 0.9, pull replication is a lot more efficient and resistant to >> errors, and it is suggested that you use pull replication in most cases, >> especially if your documents are large or you have large attachments. > (http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Replication) > > This was probably written circa 2009. Is it still true? I know from > experience that the pull replication protocol has a big bottleneck in that it > has to fetch revisions using individual GET requests, whereas push > replication can send them in bulk via a POST to _bulk_docs. In practice I > have seen this have a big effect on pull-replication performance. > > —Jens
It's no longer true. Adam
