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Seamless multi-primary syncing database with an intuitive HTTP/JSON API, designed for reliability

12 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 2 stories, 10 comments · first 2010-08-13 · latest 2025-03-14

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  1. …make sure that we're as correct as can be. For instance, here's the response to fsync-gate [4]. [1] https://github.com/apache/couchdb/blob/956c11b35487fb8ffcf70... [2] https://neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/02/26/how-couchdb-prevent... [3]…
    comment by davisp · 2025-03-14 · in Fsync() after open() is an elaborate no-op
  2. …lines of Erlang), and it was a great jumping-off point for learning databases and web programming: https://github.com/apache/couchdb/blob/0.8.1/src/couchdb/cou... It was written by one engineer, and then later refactored by a team to look…
    comment by jchrisa · 2024-06-28 · in Ask HN: What is the best code base you ever worked on?
  3. It just turns out you can't always do that in a real codebase. For example see here: https://github.com/apache/couchdb/blob/23efd8e5b1aa96ef01640fec03a5fedc945ba8b9/src/couch_mrview/src/couch_mrview_http.erl#L228
    comment by loftsy · 2023-02-02 · in Erlang: The coding language that finance forgot (2022)
  4. …DBs with a single query or to build hacky solutions when listening to changes across databases. [1] https://github.com/apache/couchdb/issues/1524 E: typo
    comment by lytefm · 2021-10-26 · in Offline-First Database Comparison
  5. …blacklist of configuration settings you cannot change via HTTP by adding whitespace to the key? 1. https://github.com/apache/couchdb/commit/2cec527cd183f8b247f...
    comment by orf · 2018-08-20 · in CVE-2018-11769: Apache CouchDB Remote Code Execution ( Versions 1.x and ≤2.1.2)
  6. …to mention optimistic updates. Overall it's been pretty great, and developer is very active. [1] https://github.com/apache/couchdb/pull/495 [2] https://github.com/apache/couchdb/pull/470 [2]
    comment by nwienert · 2017-08-07 · in CouchDB 2.1.0
  7. …itmq/rabbitmq-server/blob/master/src/... Then I thought of looking into something I might understand: https://github.com/apache/couchdb/blob/master/src/couchdb/co... The syntax is indeed scary. Unless erlang provides features that are…
    comment by general_failure · 2014-06-23 · in Why Not Erlang? The Lack of Onramps
  8. …isn't cool, especially when your moving on happened a long time ago. [1] 8/24/2010, according to https://github.com/apache/couchdb [2] http://groups.google.com/group/clojure-clutch/browse_frm/thr...
    comment by cemerick · 2012-01-05 · in The Future of CouchDB
  9. Couch now has an inbuilt compaction deamon, so you can configure it to run automatically https://github.com/apache/couchdb/blob/trunk/etc/couchdb/def...
    comment by daleharvey · 2011-11-07 · in MongoDB 2.0 Should Have Been 1.0
  10. …of happy users is here: http://www.couch.io/case-studies Here's the bug-fix, to give you an idea: http://github.com/apache/couchdb/commit/1423d6f0a593e1681706...
    comment by jchrisa · 2010-08-13 · in Repair Tool for CouchDB 1.0.0 bug