Is anyone of note using this in production? (Not hating, just curious)
Cloudant has a number of big customers who have been in production for about a year on it. Here is a page where they list a few: https://cloudant.com/#!/company/customers
Cloudant's BigCouch is Now Open Source
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#12(my iPad autocorrect is broken as I was testing international software, so forgive the typos i miss.) Love the stuff cloudant is doing and would love to base my future projects on them, but I can't quite do so yet due to their business model. I really prefer to outsource hosting and focus on code and never have to deal with machine configuration or administration. My issues with the business model boil down to them t…
lzw send us an email... we can almost certainly map out something that fits your needs. info@cloudant.com
Good to know, and I will, once I have my needs characterized sufficiently to be able to tell you what it is I need.
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#13Sounds great. It this like mongodb's sharding?
as Chris said, it's more like the other systems. See http://blog.cloudant.com/dynamo-and-couchdb-clusters for more information on our clustering.
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#14Great. The problem with proprietary infrastructure is locking yourself in to a vendor and that isn't always a safe bet. For me, that is the problem with Google AppEngine and Amazon SimpleDB. As a happy CouchDB user this makes Cloudant a contender for future projects (or even existing ones). I don't want to roll my own infrastructure, but still want the option to move away from a vendor if I ever have to.
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#15This one took out one advantage Riak has compared with CouchDB.
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#16Great. The problem with proprietary infrastructure is locking yourself in to a vendor and that isn't always a safe bet. For me, that is the problem with Google AppEngine and Amazon SimpleDB. As a happy CouchDB user this makes Cloudant a contender for future projects (or even existing ones). I don't want to roll my own infrastructure, but still want the option to move away from a vendor if I ever have to.
Yes, removing lock-in makes it easier to reach buy in.
Plus, if I'm understanding right, one should be able to have the production system hosted by them, and test code, or generate data on a local system, and then use the replication feature of couchdb to push the new code NGO production when ready.... Relatively painlessly.
Re: Cloudant's BigCouch is Now Open Source
#17Great. The problem with proprietary infrastructure is locking yourself in to a vendor and that isn't always a safe bet. For me, that is the problem with Google AppEngine and Amazon SimpleDB. As a happy CouchDB user this makes Cloudant a contender for future projects (or even existing ones). I don't want to roll my own infrastructure, but still want the option to move away from a vendor if I ever have to.
Yes, removing lock-in makes it easier to reach buy in. Plus, if I'm understanding right, one should be able to have the production system hosted by them, and test code, or generate data on a local system, and then use the replication feature of couchdb to push the new code NGO production when ready.... Relatively painlessly.
Correct, just replicate between standalone Couch and Cloudant seamlessly. Replication is a powerful feature of CouchDB, and we also use it internally to synchronize partitions if they diverge. It is pivotal in how we achieve our multi-datacenter capabilities, too.