[janl]

CouchDB dev here. While that was our idea early on for a while, we have loooong (10+ years) moved away from this narrative.

CouchDB is a document database that can be essentially indefinitely clustered to grow and shrink with your application / traffic demands.

It also comes with a unique replication protocol that allows you to synchronise casually connected instances (say offices around the world, or mobile devices and a cloud) much more like git uses push & pull. No other database really puts that into an open source / open government project.

There’s tons more cool stuff that CouchDB does and its being used in mission critical infrastructure that you’re relying on every day :)

[rakoo]

> There’s tons more cool stuff that CouchDB does and its being used in mission critical infrastructure that you’re relying on every day :)

If you could share a bit on those I think the community would be extremely interested. There was that CERN thing a decade ago, if it's still true or there are other actors with similar amounts of data, there would be fewer comments about not finding CouchDB useful

[janl]

Yeah we are working on that. Sometimes it is hard to get public info out of private projects, but there’s going to be a bit more on that in the not so distant future :)

[mxuribe]

> ...replication protocol that allows you to synchronise casually connected instances...

That single featurte right there was why i first had started playing with couchDB several years ago. It really had been quite awesome! I think other features that help it really help with offline-first approaches also are really cool! But, ultimately, after playing with it (and really liking it), i just didn't have a need for too many personal use-cases....since sqlite was "good enough". I thought - and still believe - that for wider (maybe corporate/enterprise?) uses, it can still fit the need....but i don;t hear much buzzz about it in general...so in my case, i stopped using it, and forgot about it. Apologies to any devs behind it, no offnese meant...i just got my personal use-cases covered by sqlite...and on enterprise side, too many internal politics to convince stakeholders that couchdb would be better than other solutions in some use cases.

Also, the documentation back in the day to get started was ok-ish, but there didn't seem to be much around....i guess it could be one of those things where it is/was a great thing...but if not enough attention and use exists, then it won;t trigger a wider audience of devs who will also document more stuff and further triugger a virtuous cycle?

Anyway, good to see the devs are still at it! :-)

[janl]

No offence taken, SQLite is great technology :) — My company makes a (commercial) CouchDB add-on based on SQLite to add SQL queries to CouchDB (link provided for informational purposes): https://neighbourhood.ie/products-and-services/structured-qu...

[mxuribe]

How interesting! Thanks for sharing! :-)