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CouchDB did not merge with membase. You are thinking of Couch One, the company. CouchDB remains an Apache project.

atomicity doesn't mean, or imply, instantaneous. However, a document update in CouchDB is fully ACID (including the A of Atomicity). People often confuse transactions around multip…

And BigCouch has sharding too (edited to add: for data and views)

For my part (and I'm biased) a database that doesn't consider durability paramount shouldn't be considered a database at all.

My counterpoint is that Cloudant test and harden the CouchDB that we embed, it's not, for various reasons, a verbatim copy of CouchDB itself. That said, vanilla CouchDB is quite st…

Describing Bigcouch as a bit of hack while admitting you've not used it seems a little unfair. That said, it's very valuable to hear how other people see our product. Without doing…

There are several reasons for CouchDB's use of a single, strictly append-only file, but the b-tree is not one of them. In fact, it's one of CouchDB's most clever tricks to store a …