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From: Chris Anderson <jchris@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Couchdb as a document server
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 06:45:57 -0700
To: "user@couchdb.apache.org" <user@couchdb.apache.org>


Typed on glass.

On Aug 4, 2010, at 12:52 AM, Raghuveer Kancherla <raghuveer.kancherla@aplopi=
o.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> My application requires managing a very large number of small documents (I=

> expect 2 to 3 MM docs 30kb each).

This should be no problem at all for CouchDB to handle. You may have an even=
 easier time backing up to another CouchDB, than s3, as CouchDB replication i=
s designed for that.

Google for CouchDB binary attachments to see how to best store these files.

Cheers,
Chris

> There is a lot of are advice on the web
> against saving these on the file system.
>=20
> I am planning to use couch db for this with a backup on amazon s3. Please
> let me know if anyone tried to use couchdb as a file server and their
> experience with it.
>=20
> PS: I tested mongodb, but I got errors that I am not able to replicate
> again.
>=20
> Thanks in advance,
> Raghu
> website: http://raghuveer.info