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"And I'm dead serious about making it the easiest, fastest and most reliable NoSQL database. Easy for developers to use, easy to deploy, reliable on single machines or large clusters, and fast as hell. We are building something you can put your mission critical, customer facing business data on, and not feel like you're running a dirty hack."

That sounds like something I very much want, I hope Damien and the team can deliver.

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You might want to check out Riak. It is brain dead simple to deploy on one to many machines, very fault tolerant, and the API is simple HTTP.

couchbase seems like riak with the memcache protocol bolted on. most everything that differentiated the two products has been relegated to 'unsupported' in couchbase.

Actually, couchbase is exactly the opposite: it's membase with riak bolted on.

(Which is arguably worse, IMNSHO) :)

A big part of this will be getting solid, up to date documentation in place. Even though CouchDB is fantastic to work with, when the official docs are out of line with how it actually works, you immediately feel like you're walking on eggshells.

That said, I really do like the idea of Everything Restful, and wish them the best!

Unfortunately the RESTful api of couchdb is not used, instead memcached protocol is used for inserting docs

A shame.. Is this a case of what's better for the dev team outweighing what makes it fun to use as a user? Sorry if that seems harsh, but (personally) this plus the simplicity of setting up map/reduce functions and seeing the results directly in futon are what made CouchDB stand out...

Yeah I agree. I think they are chasing VC money. Riak is successful so they want to follow suit. But the problem is they are trying to do what Riak does and Riak does what it does best. A second project with largely the same feature is going to have a very hard time displacing a stable product.

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