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by hyc_symas 4458 days ago
Massive waste of space though. LMDB is also copy-on-write and crash-proof but doesn't require compaction like CouchDB does.

http://symas.com/mdb/

Read the LDAPCon 2011 paper (and slides) to see how it works and why it's better than CouchDB.