Fwiw I got CouchDB 2.x running on a Raspian Raspberry Pi 3.b recently without much fuss. Pretty sure I compiled Erlang from source.
-Russell On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 4:12 AM Eric Clack <ericcl...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi Michael, Ben and Johs, > Thanks for your responses. > > I've found for my (admittedly small) projects Couch works pretty well on > the Pi (version 2). It's a great solution to the problem of where to store > metadata, and how to query it easily. The only performance problem I saw > was when reducing and grouping queries, e.g. here I used a memo to cache > results: > > https://github.com/ericclack/clojure-photo-bank/blob/master/src/clj/clojure_photo_bank/models/db.clj#L45 > ...running the query took about 5 seconds for around 4000 records. That's > not great, but for everything else Couch was easily fast enough. > > I'm going to explore Erlang packages for Raspbian and then look at > compiling a few different versions of CouchDB to see if I can at least get > some good bug reports to the right team. > > Many thanks, > -Eric. > > > > On 19 January 2018 at 08:11, Johs Ensby <j...@b2w.com> wrote: > > > Hi Eric, > > > > I think it would be great if you found a way to run couch on Raspberry > Pi, > > preferably Ubuntu Mate. > > Performance will surely not be great, but more important I would think it > > could be a great demonstration of how CouchDB could be a common platform > > from big clusters in the cloud to your very private system. > > > > johs:) > > > > > > > On 16 Jan 2018, at 23:28, benjamin.bast...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > > I did this back quite a few years ago, and from what I remember IO > > > performance was pretty dreadful on an SD card. I'm not sure what the > > status > > > of COUCHDB-3287 is, but maybe a different storage engine would offer > > better > > > performance? > > > > > > Ben > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 2:08 PM, Michael Fair <mich...@daclubhouse.net > > > > > wrote: > > > > > >> This is similar to running Couch on mobile phones. > > >> Perhaps an alternative is starting with another "Couch Compatible" > > database > > >> that's lighter weight? > > >> > > >> Perhaps PouchDB running on Node.js comes to mind. > > >> This implements the replication/sync protocol between Couch compatible > > >> databases, without being an erlang based, sharded, distributed > backend. > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 2:44 AM, Eric Clack <ericcl...@googlemail.com > > > > >> wrote: > > >> > > >>> Hello CouchDB devs, > > >>> > > >>> Is there any interest in getting CouchDB running on the Raspberry Pi > > (an > > >>> AMD platform), running Raspbian Stretch? > > >>> > > >>> See my post here: > > >>> https://github.com/apache/couchdb/issues/1103 > > >>> > > >>> As I said in the post, I have time to contribute to the work and am > > >>> interested in learning more about CouchDB, Erlang, etc. > > >>> > > >>> Right now it would be useful for me to gauge interest as I need to > know > > >>> whether I should investigate alternative databases for my Pi > projects. > > >>> > > >>> Many thanks, > > >>> -Eric. > > >>> > > >>> -- > > >>> Eric Clack > > >>> e...@bn7.net > > >>> East Sussex, England. > > >>> > > >> > > > > > > > -- > Eric Clack > e...@bn7.net > East Sussex, England. >
