On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 1:28 AM, Jens Alfke <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 3, 2013, at 11:43 AM, Vivek Pathak <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Just fyi, there is couchdb-dump available in >> tihttp://code.google.com/p/couchdb-python/ > > Looks like these two tools use entirely different data formats. Has anyone > thought of defining a common format for database dumps?
I think it will be hard to define such. Dumping CouchDB data as JSON looks intuitive and requires less additional actions for import/export. Having couchdb-python approach with multipart format provides lesser footprint, but requires a more tricky processing (boundaries, headers). Both solutions may use CouchDB API without any additional data conversion. And both requires a lot of disk space, much more than if you just copy database file or make a replica of it, unless you xz-zip the output. -- ,,,^..^,,,
