Every Ubuntu Karmic user will have an address book stored in CouchDB
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Every Ubuntu Karmic user will have an address book stored in CouchDB
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Re: Every Ubuntu Karmic user will have an address book stored in CouchDB
#2Just mentioned this myself here:
Re: Every Ubuntu Karmic user will have an address book stored in CouchDB
#3This sounds like it has some cool potential. Also, I'm in love with CouchDB. So... awesome!
Re: Every Ubuntu Karmic user will have an address book stored in CouchDB
#4Though 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 an important word: 'can' be replicated :)"
In other words, this is an optional service that you can choose to use -- no default install is going to send your info to Canonical.
Re: Every Ubuntu Karmic user will have an address book stored in CouchDB
#5Seems like an awful lot of server just for an address book.
Re: Every Ubuntu Karmic user will have an address book stored in CouchDB
#6The awesome part about it is that your database can be very easily replicated "to the cloud" for backup/sharing purposes.
This is an attractive feature of CouchDB that I'm considering for a web application too.
Re: Every Ubuntu Karmic user will have an address book stored in CouchDB
#7The awesome part about it is that your database can be very easily replicated "to the cloud" for backup/sharing purposes. This is an attractive feature of CouchDB that I'm considering for a web application too.
Is it possible to replicate a users' local database into a shared "cloud" database (many-to-one) or does the "cloud" have to have one database per user (one-to-one)
Re: Every Ubuntu Karmic user will have an address book stored in CouchDB
#8Does this also mean Erlang will ship with Ubuntu? That'd be a nice bonus.
Re: Every Ubuntu Karmic user will have an address book stored in CouchDB
#9The awesome part about it is that your database can be very easily replicated "to the cloud" for backup/sharing purposes. This is an attractive feature of CouchDB that I'm considering for a web application too.
Is it possible to replicate a users' local database into a shared "cloud" database (many-to-one) or does the "cloud" have to have one database per user (one-to-one)
CouchDB's current built in replication doesn't have the concept of sharing partial data yet. It currently push/pulls everything in a single Database. Conversely it's also a trivial thing to create a new database, so one database per user would certainly be possible. Also as the project develops that is functionality that is intended to be there.
Re: Every Ubuntu Karmic user will have an address book stored in CouchDB
#10Seems 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 nice development stack to make apps with.
I can imagine a generation of teenagers developing web apps [they'll think there is no other kind of app] using map / reduce idioms to get to their data, SQL a thing of the past.