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Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:57:30 -0600
From: Tim Coffman <timcoffman@mac.com>
To: user@couchdb.apache.org
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Subject: RE: Two Concerns


Sean Clark Hess writes:
> So, I really like couch, but there are two complaints I have read that I
> would like to resolve.

I need to add my own concern at this point, having been working with CouchDB for a couple months now: the lack of built-in sharding.

While the Lounge team team have clearly worked very hard, the Lounge remains a bolted-on, external solution to a problem which feels like it is completely within the project goals of the main CouchDB project.  Until CouchDB supports sharding out-of-the-box, it will remain difficult for me to recommend it for any heavy-use scenarios.

You may sense that I've been having some difficulty setting up Lounge, and have, in fact, not got it correctly configured even today.  That's a story for another post.

- Tim Coffman