Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 29194 invoked from network); 1 Sep 2009 16:07:39 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 1 Sep 2009 16:07:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 128 invoked by uid 500); 1 Sep 2009 16:07:38 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 99959 invoked by uid 500); 1 Sep 2009 16:07:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact user-help@couchdb.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: user@couchdb.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list user@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 99949 invoked by uid 99); 1 Sep 2009 16:07:38 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:07:38 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.2 required=10.0 tests=SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (athena.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [83.97.50.139] (HELO jan.prima.de) (83.97.50.139) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:07:28 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.17] (f053002014.adsl.alicedsl.de [::ffff:78.53.2.14]) (AUTH: LOGIN jan, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,128bits,AES128-SHA) by jan.prima.de with esmtp; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:07:05 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1075.2) Subject: Re: CouchDB presentation in Portland tonight From: Jan Lehnardt In-Reply-To: <8a02878f0909010850n4cf3e259u38df0575845574eb@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 18:07:04 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <9B06BFB4-94A1-42A3-A3F3-E2ED4B8C6032@apache.org> References: <8a02878f0909010841o73c82620o491f783fb56d703d@mail.gmail.com> <8a02878f0909010850n4cf3e259u38df0575845574eb@mail.gmail.com> To: user@couchdb.apache.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1075.2) X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org Cool, good luck! :) If you need some fuel on the number thing: http://jan.prima.de/~jan/plok/archives/175-Benchmarks-You-are-Doing-it-Wrong.html http://jan.prima.de/~jan/plok/archives/176-Caveats-of-Evaluating-Databases.html Cheers Jan -- On 1 Sep 2009, at 17:50, Jesse Hallett wrote: > I will be giving a presentation on CouchDB tonight at the Portland > Ruby > Brigade Meeting, which runs from 7-9pm at Robert Half Technology, > 222 SW > Columbia St, Portland, OR . > If > there are any folks on the list who are in Portland and are > interested, I > would be thrilled to see you there. > > The focus of the talk will be on high-level Ruby interfaces to > CouchDB. But > there will be a lot of people at the meeting who don't know much about > CouchDB or why they would want to use it. So I will also give some > background and explain what sort of things CouchDB is good at. > > At the last meeting there was another presentation comparing the > performances of several new database systems with benchmarks. > CouchDB did > very poorly in these benchmarks, compared to Tokyo Tyrant, MongoDB, > and the > usual SQL implemenations, for every operation except for retrieving > documents in bulk. One of the challenges I will face will be > explaining > that there are applications where CouchDB is the best choice despite > those > numbers.