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For 2.0, there is some major work on locking being done (concurrency will be an ongoing theme in 2011) and online compaction has been implemented (although you have to kick it off,…

Ah, sorry, I assumed people would understand that from the post. I added (preview, not production-ready), is that better?

I'm reluctant to put such technical info on the documentation homepage, but I've updated it to very clearly point people to Production Notes. How does it look now?

Actually, it's more like saying, "we HIGHLY recommend having a backup parachute" (as, I'd imagine, most skydiving instructors would). Also, I think I've always mention it in my tal…

Writing to disk and transaction logs are nice, but they aren't magic bullets. What if a data center catches fire? More mundanely, I've heard ~6% of hard drive fail/year. Only repli…

Response (awaiting moderation, I think it's the links?): ------- > haha, that’s funny. i regularly use non-CouchDB databases and I get along great with > all the people from other …

We really, really want people to know they should run on multiple servers. Do you have any suggestions on making it clearer? Where did you look for information about running it in …

> Having said that, I must ask. Do the "unchecked" writes, > configurable fsyncs and multi-node writes exist in the > currently stable version of MongoDB or are these features > st…

I've tried to post this as a comment on the blog, but it's not showing up (moderated?): ----------- Full disclosure: I work for 10gen. You strategically posted this when my air con…

...which is why you have a slave. Master corrupt? Promote the slave to master, get it its own slave. Repairing a corrupted database, even a relational database, often takes too lon…

They go into it in the actual paper, if you're interested. They wanted a document store because their data is flexible (all different sizes and shapes), complex, and they needed se…