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CouchDB 3.4.1 Released

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Re: CouchDB 3.4.1 Released

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Curious to hear who is using it still. I experimented with it 2010/2011 IIRC but never build a real project with it.

Was some time ago (2016), but we built and released Typeform LITE (form creator via text-entry-like interface for smartphones) with CouchDB + PouchDB which was a pleasure as far as I can remember. Was really neat to get local-first functionality almost out of the box with web tech on smartphones.

Re: CouchDB 3.4.1 Released

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Curious to hear who is using it still. I experimented with it 2010/2011 IIRC but never build a real project with it.

We used 1.6 for a large project in 2014 or so, the 2.x release removed key features for us and we were never able to upgrade. The direction they went after that just never really worked for us so we only have that legacy project still running.

Re: CouchDB 3.4.1 Released

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CouchDB was always a curious product that asked the question, "what would happen if your database and your application server were the same product?"

Unfortunately I think the answer was nobody would use it.

Re: CouchDB 3.4.1 Released

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CouchDB was always a curious product that asked the question, "what would happen if your database and your application server were the same product?" Unfortunately I think the answer was nobody would use it.

Unless you are IBM.

Re: CouchDB 3.4.1 Released

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Curious to hear who is using it still. I experimented with it 2010/2011 IIRC but never build a real project with it.

We tried to use it alongside pouchdb to provide offline first experience. We ran into a lot of issues, mainly with pouchdb bugs. Then after reading this list [1] of issues in the couchdb architecture we decided to ditch it and stop trying to make pouchdb work.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17115649

Re: CouchDB 3.4.1 Released

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Curious to hear who is using it still. I experimented with it 2010/2011 IIRC but never build a real project with it.

I build an internal project using CouchDB2 as a backend in 2017 and it's still used today. CouchDB definitely surpassed my expectations in what has been possible to do with it. Its biggest advantages are that data sync is effortless and that it uses HTTP as a protocol, so you can communicate directly with it from a web application.

Re: CouchDB 3.4.1 Released

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Curious to hear who is using it still. I experimented with it 2010/2011 IIRC but never build a real project with it.

Used it this school year for a research project that needs solid replication of content and a firehose of updates. There are dozens of such projects but nothing beats the simplicity and versatility of basic HTTP calls with JSON documents and the robustness of a 15-years old project that Just Works.

Re: CouchDB 3.4.1 Released

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CouchDB was always a curious product that asked the question, "what would happen if your database and your application server were the same product?" Unfortunately I think the answer was nobody would use it.

CouchDB dev here. While that was our idea early on for a while, we have loooong (10+ years) moved away from this narrative.

CouchDB is a document database that can be essentially indefinitely clustered to grow and shrink with your application / traffic demands.

It also comes with a unique replication protocol that allows you to synchronise casually connected instances (say offices around the world, or mobile devices and a cloud) much more like git uses push & pull. No other database really puts that into an open source / open government project.

There’s tons more cool stuff that CouchDB does and its being used in mission critical infrastructure that you’re relying on every day :)

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