CouchDB: Horizontal Scalability from Cloudant
Even if CouchDB benefits of probably one of the most sophisticated and cool replication mechanisms that doesn’t make it horizontally scalable. I’ve already covered the different solutions for scaling CouchDB, but what Cloudant promises seems to be the missing part:
All of these features — distributed, horizontally scalable, durable, consistent — happen with little or no change required in applications that have been written for CouchDB. A cluster looks just like a stand-alone CouchDB, and API compliance has been our goal from the beginning. Granted, there are a few extra options like overriding quorum constant defaults and there are a few vagaries, like views always performing rereduce due to the views being distributed. But on the whole, the extras in Cloudant are transparent to the application.
Now I’m wondering how Cloudant CouchDB scaling compares with running CouchDB with a Riak backend, Riak offering also a Dynamo-like distributed system.
CouchDB: Horizontal Scalability from Cloudant originally posted on the NoSQL blog: myNoSQL
