Robert and Dan, Thank you for your responses. It sounds like neither is a good alternative as of right now. What I'd like to try it for is for a cluster of maybe ~8 nodes with fairly high write throughput to replace a system that is slowly growing out of proportion. I'll wait and see what comes out of the merge in Q1 2014.
Cheers, Jens On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Robert Newson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > There has been a protracted lull in the bigcouch merger work but we're > doing some more at couchhack in December and then a whole lot more in > Q1, hopefully to completion. > > We're not yet sure what migration will look like. At worse, it will be > replication based but we're mindful to do better. > > 0.4 is stable enough but note that it's 2+ years old from the author's > (Cloudant's) point of view and is no longer under active development > or maintenance. > > For clarity, the merge is emphatically not the bigcouch code base but, > rather, the code that Cloudant runs in production as of around April. > Once the merge is done, we can look at porting all the core > improvements we've made since then. > > B. > > > > On 21 November 2013 16:31, Dan Santner <[email protected]> wrote: > > I use bigcouch in a production system. In my case it's been pretty > stable but we don't have massive usage yet. > > > > It was one of the easiest things for me to setup honestly. And if you > don't actually need your own instance running on your own nodes just use > cloudant which makes the deployment steps go away :). > > > > Dan. > > On Nov 21, 2013, at 10:24 AM, Jens Rantil <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I think I have a use case that would fit BigCouch quite well. This > brings > >> me to three questions: > >> > >> - When is the BigCouch merge expected to be released? Maybe I should > >> focus on getting that one working if it's near in time. > >> - If I choose to go with the original BigCouch, will it be easy to > >> migrate to CouchDB when the BigCouch merge is done? > >> - The BigCouch version is 0.4, but I guess it's production ready? > >> > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Jens > > >
