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Thanks Paul, I’ve updated the post to clarify: https://neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/02/26/how-couchdb-prevent...

I would still recommend you give CouchDB and PouchDB a fair shot. They are used successfully by many folks.

No offence taken, SQLite is great technology :) — My company makes a (commercial) CouchDB add-on based on SQLite to add SQL queries to CouchDB (link provided for informational purp…

fixed, thanks

it _supports_ one for a specific legacy users, the default is more modern.

Yeah we are working on that. Sometimes it is hard to get public info out of private projects, but there’s going to be a bit more on that in the not so distant future :)

The Mac version is probably closest to what you mean, but yeah, an “Access/FileMaker“ type of app, most easily realised by bundling CouchDB and Electron probably, would go a long w…

still does (in a limited capacity :)

CouchDB dev here. 2.x only added new features, not sure what you’re referring to that was removed. The only on incompatibility was the changes feed ids moving from numbers to strin…

CouchDB dev here. While that was our idea early on for a while, we have loooong (10+ years) moved away from this narrative. CouchDB is a document database that can be essentially i…

I’m the author and this is the correct reference.

Good observations, let me add the current state to that: > Querying in a more ad-hoc way (vs. building indexes ahead of time and querying by key, etc) is a bit janky / not 1st clas…

not really, no.

the difficulty starts happening when something goes wrong. FDB has a lot of moving parts (for good reasons, this is not to speak ill of FDB), and that conceptual complexity is a lo…

the work is all open source on the CouchDB main git repo.

sure, changing defaults for different use-cases is totally normal for any database. Best thing: CouchDB 3.x comes with shard splitting and default shard factor of 2 (previously 8),…

the ASF switched binary hosting providers, the COuchDB docs have the up to date links: https://docs.couchdb.org/en/stable/install/unix.html

CouchDB is a lot more scalable than SQL databases because it has a distributed scaling model built in (just add nodes), no need to mess with read-replicate and finicky hot-failover…

CouchDB docs have you covered: https://docs.couchdb.org/en/stable/replication/intro.html

syncing between clients requires a network between clients and normally, clients only have connections to servers. But if you are in a situation where clients can open TCP connecti…

CouchDB dev here, I can confirm that CouchDB is very much not on life support. Active work goes into PouchDB and CouchDB, some of which is addressing the issues brought up here. No…

Yup, works with clustering and everything: https://blog.couchdb.org/2020/02/26/the-road-to-couchdb-3-0-...

You can replicate all per-user DBs into a central database today. We are working on per-document-access-control at the moment, to support this use-case out of the box

We use https://github.com/jo/couchdb-bootstrap successfully. CouchDB does SSL natively, but we do recommend HAProxy.

I sadly can’t name names, but rest assured the fortune 500 is heavily involved. OTOH, publicly known big companies using CouchDB include Apple and IBM. And I worked on a team that …