What happened to CouchDB's popularity?

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Post by firefoxman1 » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 3:01 AM UTC

What happened to CouchDB's popularity?
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Re: What happened to CouchDB's popularity?

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Post by epistasis » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 3:41 AM UTC

About a year ago I built a prototype system on top of CouchDB, and it turned out to be very flaky when I went to install it elsewhere. The javascript engine (was it Rhino?) was super hard to install from source, and the distribution packages on Ubuntu were unreliable. I really like the concepts of CouchDB, and it's really influenced how I think about designing systems for future projects, but I was going to wait for it to mature more before I pushed on it again.

I see that it's now using SpiderMonkey. Maybe in a few more versions I'll give it a try again.

Re: What happened to CouchDB's popularity?

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Post by james33 » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 3:41 AM UTC

I think you answered your own question.

Re: What happened to CouchDB's popularity?

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Post by wavephorm » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 3:43 AM UTC

I'm not entirely surprised. CouchDB is very clunky and minimalist. And documentation is really, really horrible. The futon UI is a pain to use. I had to write my own library for nodejs because all the existing code I found was terribly written and poorly documented. It just goes on and on. And I like the technology, I persisted and eventually learned to be sort of proficient with CouchDB. But I doubt other people will go to the same lengths.

Re: What happened to CouchDB's popularity?

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 4:15 AM UTC

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Re: What happened to CouchDB's popularity?

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Post by maxogden » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 4:20 AM UTC

one of couch's strong points is that it is great at giving away your data. most startup bros find that antithetical to their business model

Re: What happened to CouchDB's popularity?

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Post by michaelbuckbee » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 4:29 AM UTC

One of CouchDB's standout features is that it handles synchronization of data across devices (not that it doesn't potentially do other things well, but I think the conventional wisdom for a while was: "If you want to do synchronization use CouchDB.")

That's nice, but I think that synchronization in general is less of a need as we've all become more and more connected and internet access has gotten more and more ubiquitous.

The core CouchDB devs are ex Lotus Notes guys and I get the sense that with Couch they are trying to "do Lotus Notes right" not thinking that the environment has really changed and synch is not the killer feature it once was.

Re: What happened to CouchDB's popularity?

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Post by mark242 » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 4:33 AM UTC

Go to one of the http://www.couchbase.com/couchconf-world-tour CouchConf days and ask your question again. The San Francisco edition was exciting; anyone know how New York turned out?

Re: What happened to CouchDB's popularity?

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Post by athst » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 4:42 AM UTC

It may be superficial, but I wonder how much naming and marketing could be a factor. The name sounds a little bland if you don't know what it is. I wasn't that interested to learn more about it until I went to a meetup where a guy explained it in much clearer language and gave some examples as to where it could be useful.

Re: What happened to CouchDB's popularity?

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Post by latch » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 4:43 AM UTC

a bit of self-ego inflating (feel free to bust me down a notch though), but between the C and D points in the MongoDB line, which was quite a spike, The Little MongoDB Book and the mongly.com tutorials went live :)