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"In the end, Zdenek had a single-server CouchDB installation on the order of hundreds of megabytes of metadata stored."

I think the title is a little inflammatory, no?

"[I]t came down to storing lots of binary attachments that could be easily shared with other applications in the CMS. That was the main reason for the move."

Yeah this is a non-story. A better headline would be "Why a small application dropped Oracle for CouchDB". Compared with CERN experiments that generate petabytes per year, this is like publicizing Google's technology choice for its employee-list database. Not that ATLAS data goes into an Oracle database, but...

Where are the zealous HN title mods when you need them, eh?

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