Hi Mike,
welcome to user@ :)
On 25 Oct 2009, at 20:40, Michael Miller wrote:
Hi All,
I should introduce myself to the list: I am one of the cofounders of
Cloudant. Behind Adam Kocoloski's lead we are actively
contributing to CouchDB and are currently deploying it at scale as a
hosted service for our alpha-customers. We are co-sponsoring this
week's no:sql(east) conference in Atlanta (*) and I'll be giving my
first talk on CouchDB. The talk is aimed squarely at telling the
story of couch in the wild, and I could use your help. After a
brief description of couch and what makes it unique, I want to focus
on what it's like to use couch in production. In particular:
I'm trying to be objective :)
- why did you choose couch?
I like simple systems. CouchDB uses the same concepts for data
storage, views, replication and compaction. It is extremely easy to
understand. And I'm a huge fan of web technologies :)
- if you did not choose couch, what was the leading reason?
Sometimes, storing a few bytes to a file is the simplest thing you can
do :)
- what problem(s) does couch solve for your application?
I want to develop software, not fight with databases. I've been doing
that for a long time and I'm just fed up. CouchDB frees me from a lot
of hassle and brings fun back into writing database backed applications.
- was couch a success for your needs?
Totally :)
- what are your top feature requests for future development?
Less obscure Erlang crash reports, easier view management, more
documentation.
- what do you love about couch?
The Relax theme.
- what do you hate about couch?
That it is different. People don't like change and it is hard to
explain that some change is good.
Cheers
Jan
--
- AOB
I realize a lot of this information is available from the most
recent survey (**) but there has been a lot of action since that was
completed. Any feedback that you can provide would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks, Mike
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Mike Miller
[email protected]
(*) https://nosqleast.com/2009/
(**) http://survey.io/results/842d257419c0aab16450cb00cf930a99df7c4257
