[mikekchar]

> CouchDB is awesome, full stop.

I really like CouchDB. It is wonderful if you want that kind of DB. However, if you want a relational DB (and there are many, many, many reasons to want one), do not pick CouchDB. It works very poorly as a relational DB.

I have a legacy project that didn't quite understand this point and we have ended up paying the price for a document oriented DB in which it is hard to migrate and where we are constantly having to worry about the bandwidth to the view server. And then all the amazing, wonderful features of couch? We don't use a single one :-P Fail all the way around. However, I still like it and instead of retiring it, I've been slowly trying to start using the features that make it awesome, while mitigating some of the problems that have piled up over the years.

[james_s_tayler]

We're in a similar boat. My main goal this year is to retire it.