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I am just a user and occasional patch submitter. With CouchDB, you front-load all of your disappointment. In exchange, everything that CouchDB can do has compelling big-O performan…

"NoSQL" is meaningless. Instead, look at programming language terminology: general-purpose languages vs. domain-specific languages. CouchDB is a domain-specific database.

CouchDB fails the benchmarks but gets honors in the school of hard knocks.

Thanks, I'll add a FAQ about location, latency, etc. after some sleep. It's EC2 us-east at this time although we'll probably be evaluating alternatives soon. But moving off EC2 is …

Updated the FAQ. Thanks for the tip!

We moved the site from the old domain. Possibly there is a bug. Feel free to contact me, but I'll be double-checking with all the browsers again.

I will update the site then to clarify! But for now it's only a big-picture thing pending a more detailed fee announcement.

Agreed. Fortunately, CouchDB is great on its own merit. Also, CouchDB was using Erlang, JSON, and Javascript in 2005, before they were trendy.

I'm in a similar situation. My favorite podcast is The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe, which follows in the footsteps of Houdini and Sagan, applying critical thinking to life. Sti…

We would need a place that can seat several people comfortably in a discussion format which has drinks. My wife and I are wracking our brains but I think the upshot is there is no …

There is the semi-weekly Beercamp meetup, which vaguely overlaps. It is largely composed of the English-speaking Barcamp community. Not sure if that counts.

Sure, where and when?