No. It's not even an article, it's slashdot. In the post someone links to an article on some website which again links to the canonical mailing list. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2011-Novemb...

There John Lenton lays out in not so many words that "for the last three years we have worked with the company behind CouchDB to make it scale in the particular ways we need it to scale in ourserver environment. Our situation is rather unique, and we were unable to resolve some of the issues we came across..."

This sounds like a fair assessment to me. No "myths created", no "ignorance perpetuated".

I would also say that for every kind of technology at some point it's fair to say that it does not scale or is not sufficient in other ways.

Or to say it with couchDB: relax!