Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6480610F3B for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2013 22:53:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 66691 invoked by uid 500); 5 Nov 2013 22:53:55 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 66651 invoked by uid 500); 5 Nov 2013 22:53:55 -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 66643 invoked by uid 99); 5 Nov 2013 22:53:55 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 22:53:55 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: domain of jens@couchbase.com designates 206.225.164.30 as permitted sender) Received: from [206.225.164.30] (HELO EXHUB020-3.exch020.serverdata.net) (206.225.164.30) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 22:53:50 +0000 Received: from EXVMBX020-1.exch020.serverdata.net ([169.254.4.151]) by EXHUB020-3.exch020.serverdata.net ([206.225.164.30]) with mapi; Tue, 5 Nov 2013 14:53:29 -0800 From: Jens Alfke To: "user@couchdb.apache.org" Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 14:53:27 -0800 Subject: Re: CouchDB vs RethinkDB Thread-Topic: CouchDB vs RethinkDB Thread-Index: Ac7aedfvv5ZUeDaESDCdbCqasfZquA== Message-ID: References: <1C1EDFED-1208-496D-AFD3-220ED5A8400E@sri.com> <5279644F.6080100@fastmail.fm> <8cabc787-fef2-4006-90c5-5b96038e52f7@email.android.com> In-Reply-To: <8cabc787-fef2-4006-90c5-5b96038e52f7@email.android.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org On Nov 5, 2013, at 1:42 PM, Florian Westreicher Bakk.techn. wrote: > Couch can and will handle net splits. If you use the replicator db. Confl= icts will be detected and a winning version is determistically chosen on ea= ch node, resulting in the same doc everywhere.=20 This is true, but it doesn=92t matter whether or not you use the replicator= db. Any replication has these properties. CouchDB replication supports a fully P2P mesh model with no masters, no per= manent connections, and arbitrary connection topology. New revisions will p= ropagate between the peers until everyone has a copy. =97Jens=