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From: David Goodlad <david@goodlad.ca>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:33:57 +1100
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Subject: Re: Replicating a subset of data(data for user of a website)
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On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:42 AM, Audrey Lee <audrey.lee.is.me@gmail.com> wrote:
> At the risk of appearing lazy about RTFM, I'll add another question to
> the thread.
>
> If I have 1,000 users then my use-case would convince me to create a
> couchDB database for each user.
>
> So, if I have 1,000 couchDB databases installed on my server in the
> datacenter, does that mean that I'd have 1,000 couchDB
> server-processes?

No, one CouchDB "node" (process, essentially) can have many databases.
Think of mysql - one mysql daemon process can serve up many
independent databases.

Dave