>> do you have experience in using couchdb as caching-system? we are >> thinking about storing generated html-documents in couchdb. your >> experience? > > No experience so far, but why not use the filesystem? :-) hi jan, it`s a distributed system and only files like images, pdf are handled through the filesystem. caching should be done by a single independent server. another point is that we cache parts of a html-page -> some parts are generated dynamically. doing a request to the file-system for each part is not performant :-) i`d like to get all cached parts with one request. eg: html-page /blub.html ist called. now, there can be 2 cases: 1. total page has been cached 2. only parts have been cached i want to get all information with one request. storing it in couchdb would make it possible to store it all in one document - correct? { full_html: null or html, parts: { .... } } of course, i can store json in a file in the filesystem, but will i be able to scale my caching-system? greets sven