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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:27:27 -0500
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Subject: Re: massive replication?
From: Andrew Melo <andrew.melo@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Miles Fidelman
<mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> wrote:
> A couple of the recent CouchDB powerpoint presentations illustrate
> replication across massive numbers of database instances. =C2=A0Does that
> represent anything remotely possible, for real?
> We have an application that involves replicating data across very large
> numbers of nodes that are intermittently connected - where we'd like
> collections of data to replicate and synchronize as connectivity allows.
> =C2=A0Think something like USENET news as an analogy.

Hey Miles,

I don't know if it would fit your needs (I've not used it personally),
but this may be worth looking into:

http://tilgovi.github.com/couchdb-lounge/

Thanks,
Andrew


>
> I'm trying to sort out whether or not CouchDB is a potential platform.
>
> Thanks very much,
>


> Miles Fidelman
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> --
> In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
> In practice, there is. =C2=A0 .... Yogi Berra
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