Just mentioned this myself here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=881488
HN/PG feature request - merge 'really the same' threads feature?
I guess a link works well enough.
Every Ubuntu Karmic user will have an address book stored in CouchDB
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#12Does this also mean Erlang will ship with Ubuntu? That'd be a nice bonus.
Yes, been installed on my laptop for a good coupla months now... Now I only have to http://learnyousomeerlang.com/ for great good!
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#13Seems like an awful lot of server just for an address book.
clearly Ubuntu think CouchDB will be useful in other areas... and this is a trial run. Id stick my neck out to say that something like CouchDB will become the de-facto standard for almost all data. Data that isn't {securely} on the web is in effect data that doesn't exist, while more data than not is naturally in a graph or tree-like form. Mix in offline mode, JavaScript on client and server and you have a really nic…
Would be nice but my feeling is that the simplicity of SQL CRUD statements could be grokked by way more teenagers in the "past" than will be able to grasp map-reduce in the "future".
Myself I'm also into document DBs and graph DBs, a lot. But for the kind of rapid prototyping that got most of us going as teenagers in the first place, I'd argue table based data with the simplest incarnations of INSERT UPDATE DELETE SELECT WHERE haven't been beaten yet by those no-SQL DBs.
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#14Though the comments here so far seem positive, there has also been a lot of negative backlash, primarily out of privacy concerns. Elliot Murphy posted a comment on LWN clarifying his message (comment here: http://lwn.net/Articles/356947/ attached to parent http://lwn.net/Articles/356911/ ). The most relevant part is this: "It seems I was overenthusiastic when sending that email to the couchdb dev list, and left out a…
abook with dropbox/ubuntuone for the geek who is concerned about privacy.
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#15But I thought KDE guys would be the first to go with CouchDB.