The Future of Apache CouchDB

It felt a bit unfair that someone who hasn't contributed to a project in more than a year, declared it obsolete and urged everyone to move on (even if they were the original founder).

Also the choice of Couchbase to use "Couch" in their product name while completely breaking API compatibility between Couchbase Server and Apache CouchDB is a sly move.

All that left a bad taste in mouth. Good to see someone from Cloudant responded.

Re: The Future of Apache CouchDB

#5

Post by nestlequ1k » Thu, Jan 05, 2012, 9:27 PM UTC

Seems majorly confusing, and will potentially divide the community. Couchbase vs CouchDB. Can anyone explain the difference?

Re: The Future of Apache CouchDB

#6

Post by espeed » Thu, Jan 05, 2012, 9:33 PM UTC

nestlequ1k wrote: post #5

Seems majorly confusing, and will potentially divide the community. Couchbase vs CouchDB. Can anyone explain the difference?

Couchbase 2.0 is Membase Server (http://www.couchbase.com/products-and-services/membase-serve...) merged with CouchDB, and as I understand it, Couchbase 2.0 more closely resembles Membase Server at the moment (http://www.couchbase.org/get/couchbase/2.0.0).

Re: The Future of Apache CouchDB

#7

Post by sktrdie » Thu, Jan 05, 2012, 9:34 PM UTC

nestlequ1k wrote: post #5

Seems majorly confusing, and will potentially divide the community. Couchbase vs CouchDB. Can anyone explain the difference?

I agree. This is getting overly complicated.

Re: The Future of Apache CouchDB

#8

Post by reinhardt » Thu, Jan 05, 2012, 9:38 PM UTC

nestlequ1k wrote: post #5

Seems majorly confusing, and will potentially divide the community. Couchbase vs CouchDB. Can anyone explain the difference?

potentially divide the community. Couchbase vs CouchDB

Actually that would be a step up from the current situation, which is "Apache CouchDB" vs "BigCouch" vs "CouchBase".

Re: The Future of Apache CouchDB

#9

Post by jamesbritt » Thu, Jan 05, 2012, 9:45 PM UTC

Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3427491

Re: The Future of Apache CouchDB

#10

Post by perezd » Thu, Jan 05, 2012, 9:46 PM UTC

This is where actual innovation is happening. I'm not at all discouraged by the FUD being perpetuated by Katz today. I have a fairly modest BigCouch deployment in production and I am very happy with it. haters gonna hate.