On Mar 13, 2012, at 20:52 , Miles Fidelman wrote: > Jan Lehnardt wrote: >> >> I'd be interested to hear what other measures you think Couchbase could >> take? Feel free to take this to [email protected] to discuss >> with the PMC as well. >> > One that that might help a lot is a really serious definition of what > Couchbase is - particularly in visible locations like the front page of > couchbase.com. While the name implies a close relationship to CouchDB, I > really can't, for the life of me, find a clear description of what it does. > > I mean, CouchDB is very clearly: > - "a document-oriented database that can be queried and indexed using > JavaScript in a MapReduce fashion" > - "A document database server, accessible via a RESTful JSON API." > with http://couchdb.apache.org/docs/intro.html and > http://couchdb.apache.org/docs/overview.html elaborating quite nicely. > (Less visible is that CouchDB is a great application development platform. I > refer to couchapps, of course). > > On the other hand, all I can figure out from couchbase.com is: > - "Couchbase is open source NoSQL for mission-critical systems." and that one > can > - "spread your data across a cluster of machines and randomly access it with > sub-millisecond latency" > - and it's pretty quickly obvious that the most salient features of CouchDB > (RESTful interface, application platform) are missing from Couchbase > - by and large, it's completely useless for the kinds of things I'm working > on (except maybe as a backend to add some scalability down the line) > > What CouchDB is, and why one might use it is very clearly defined. > > On the other hand, Couchbase materials (website, white paper, ...) make a > generic case for NoSQL databases - but one that could equally apply to > Hadoop, Riak, graph databases, and the whole range of NoSQL technologies and > products. > > Seems to me that not only would a very clear use case and functional > description for Couchbase help distinguish the two, but would also help > Couchbase position itself in the space of available technologies and in the > marketplace. If anything, the "Couch" in Couchbase implies that it's > something like CouchDB - which it really isn't. At best, it's not very > helpful, at worst it's rather misleading.
[Couchbase hat]: Thanks for the input, we hope to address these things on our website, please await my report before suggesting other things for the website. I was looking for *additional* things you might think we can do. Cheers Jan -- > > Miles Fidelman > > > > > > > -- > In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. > In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra > >
