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CouchDB NoSQL Database Ready for Production Use

nytimes.com

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"The first fully production-ready nonrelational, or NoSQL, database, called CouchDB [...]"

It's amazing how little research went into that first, very bold, statement. There have been quite a few non-relational datastores that have been released before CouchDB. Even if we restrict it to only document stores, we still have MongoDB which was released as 'stable' (1.0) on the 27th of August, 2009.

I think lines like that should serve to remind us that journalists probably only know as much about law, finance, or science as they do technology. It's just that their ignorance is more obvious when they write about topics we know about.

And if we don't restrict it to document stores, probably dozens or hundreds of production non-relational databases.

Berkeley DB comes to mind; it's been around much longer than MongoDB.

PR... sucks :(

Wow, misleading title. CouchDB has been used in production by many users for a long time.

1.0 is not a magic number for versions.

1.0 is a magic number for versions.

A lot of people will magically start to treat you as a real contender when you release it, even if you've been viable for several months or even years.

semver.org -- Oh it's not is it?

While there are a _number_ of 'in-production' right now, the one I can personally speak to is at https://connamara.cloudant.com/cme/_design/app/index.html [disclaimer: this is my employer].

For what it's worth, I must say that I was very impressed today with how much 'better behaved' this release was in comparison to bother previous "major" releases (0.11 for example) _and_ recent trunk snapshots. In particular, they seem to have ironed out the nagging dependency issues couch had displayed on debian-based installations and are now reliably passing all of the unit / end-to-end tests.

Great work.

It worked fine on Windows at least a year ago when that build was in the same unofficial and unsupported state it is in now (http://books.couchdb.org/relax/appendix/installing-on-window...). What has changed in a year that makes it suddenly "production ready" on Windows?

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