Hey, this is an interesting question. Maybe someone can answer it?
http://serverfault.com/questions/735415/what-could-make-upload-speeds-vastly-differ-in-couchdb-vs-apache I am very interested in the reasons ;-) I think it has sth. to do how CouchDB handles the attachment storage. And the test case was by using Futon. Not the CLI ... All the best Andy -- Andy Wenk Hamburg - Germany RockIt! GPG fingerprint: C044 8322 9E12 1483 4FEC 9452 B65D 6BE3 9ED3 9588 https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/andywenk.asc