Re: distributed database

2013-03-17 Thread Tim Tisdall
For anyone else asking something similar... You should direct people to your talk in Berlin: http://conf.couchdb.org/slides/Introduction-to-BigCouch-CouchDB-Conf-Berlin-2013.pdf Of course, it's the 5th thing you see when you Google "bigcouch", but for some reason I didn't see it before. -Tim O

Re: distributed database

2013-03-16 Thread Tim Tisdall
Yeah, I looked at Cloudant, but I think it'd end up costing me more because of the amount of storage and transactions I would be using. It would be nice to not have to worry about the implementation, though. :) On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Lance Carlson wrote: > You should also check out c

Re: distributed database

2013-03-16 Thread Tim Tisdall
Is there any projected date for the release? On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Robert Newson wrote: > Good news, the BigCouch source tree is being merged into CouchDB at > the moment and will be included in a release this year. > > B. > > On 15 March 2013 08:35, Tim Tisdall wrote: > > I've been

Re: distributed database

2013-03-16 Thread Tim Tisdall
Are there instructions on how to do it either way? If I have 4 nodes running a database and want to add a node, wouldn't I need to spin up 5 more nodes and then replicate the contents over from the first 4 nodes? That seems really intensive and painful if not using virtualized hardware. On Fri,

Re: distributed database

2013-03-15 Thread Paul Davis
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Tim Tisdall wrote: > I've been running a CouchDB instance for quite a while now, but only on a > single machine. I'm looking at moving my hosting and settings things up in > a distributed fashion. I was hoping someone could point me in the right > direction for w

Re: distributed database

2013-03-15 Thread Lance Carlson
You should also check out cloudant. Those guys are awesome. On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Robert Newson wrote: > Good news, the BigCouch source tree is being merged into CouchDB at > the moment and will be included in a release this year. > > B. > > On 15 March 2013 08:35, Tim Tisdall wrote:

Re: distributed database

2013-03-15 Thread Robert Newson
Good news, the BigCouch source tree is being merged into CouchDB at the moment and will be included in a release this year. B. On 15 March 2013 08:35, Tim Tisdall wrote: > I've been running a CouchDB instance for quite a while now, but only on a > single machine. I'm looking at moving my hostin