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There has not to my knowledge. As a CouchDB user I'm definitely interested in the results, but it's not clear to me what cluster configuration to test.

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You'll need two pieces to run Jepsen against a database:

1. Code to provision a five cluster database (using Aphyr's Salticid deployment system)

2. Code to do some reads and writes to the database (this is run by Jepsen)

It might be helpful to look through the pull request I submitted to Aphyr for FoundationDB's test, so you can see the pieces: https://github.com/aphyr/jepsen/pull/10

Thanks, that's super helpful. A great writeup, by the way.

Thanks - it was a great way to learn more about the database, and the effect of network partitions in general.

We (Cloudant) ran a Jepsen-style test against our clustered CouchDB implementation (similar to BigCouch). The write-up is at https://cloudant.com/blog/run-dmc-explains-network-partition....

The clustering layer is getting merged into CouchDB and will provide semantics closer to other Dynamo-style systems (e.g. Cassandra, Riak).

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