Hi Simon, it is definitely possible for a single cluster to manage thousands of 
replication jobs simultaneously — we have done this in production — but it does 
introduce scalability challenges and quite a bit of computational overhead. 
There’s a lot of work happening to improve CouchDB’s handling of large numbers 
of replications right now in 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-3324; Nick Vatamaniuc recently 
summarized the effort on the dev@couchdb mailing list:

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201704.mbox/browser

Cheers, Adam

> On Apr 11, 2017, at 4:45 AM, Simon Temple <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I'm searching for information about replication scalability, has anyone 
> deployed replication across hundreds or even thousands of instances?
> 
> Can I realistically expect a single cluster to act as a replication point for 
> a thousand replicas?
> 
> The database I wish to replicate contains user information.  This information 
> is not updated very frequently but is read often. <http://bit.ly/1Lqt8qy>
> 
> TIA
> 
> Simon
> <http://bit.ly/1Lqt8qy>
> <http://bit.ly/1Lqt8qy> <http://bit.ly/1Lqt8qy>

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