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by teleclimber 4624 days ago
As far as I know, cloudant's product is BigCouch which was a fork of CouchDB but has recently been merged back in:

https://blogs.apache.org/couchdb/entry/welcome_bigcouch
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garbados 4624 days ago
Cloudant is a hosted, managed, distributed database as a service. We're based on CouchDB, but then added clustering, then full-text search, and -- coming soon -- geo-indexing :D

BigCouch, and the clustering abilities that we're merging back into CouchDB, are open-source artifacts of the work we do on the core product. The open-source community gave us so much, and we love giving back :D

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teleclimber 4624 days ago
Ah, thanks for clarifying!

And I think it's great that BigCouch is being merged back into CouchDB. I'm just getting interested in CouchDB and PouchDB and it seems these projects deserve the love.

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