On Jan 27, 2014, at 10:04 AM, Benoit Chesneau <[email protected]> wrote:
> How would you do your file transfer? Other than that you could listen on > couchdb changes and rsync your databases files between nodes. Nope, rsync is a highly interactive protocol that runs over IP. It's also not very efficient compared to delta-coding, especially when you toss an entire database file at it instead of just cherry-picking the JSON bodies that changed. If it helps, think of it as though the _only_ tool you could use to communicate were scp. And you're running it over a really crappy 2G GPRS/EDGE cell connection. I tried to look up info on the available bit-rate, but apparently "HF Radio" is a very generic term. Aaron, can you share specifics of the technology you're using and its bandwidth/latency characteristics? Here's the beginnings of an approach: GET /db/_changes?conflicts=true&style=all_docs&include_docs=true&attachments=true&since=XXX where XXX is the db sequence number from the last time you ran a push. Then compress the hell out of the response (it's full of JSON so it's going to be very redundant) and send it across. On the receiving end you'll probably have to write custom code to unpack the individual revisions out of the feed and apply them to the database. —Jens
