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Cloudant blog is the company blog at blog.cloudant.com, writing about programming and data. Since 2009, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Dynamo and CouchDB Clusters”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- Dynamo and CouchDB Clusters3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-08-13
- Cloudant's BigCouch is Now Open Source2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-08-30
What Hacker News says?
as Chris said, it's more like the other systems. See http://blog.cloudant.com/dynamo-and-couchdb-clusters for more information on our clustering.
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on “Cloudant's BigCouch is Now Open Source”Submitted The Future of Apache CouchDB as a story · 137 points
HN discussionAt least in the case of Cloudant (CouchDB) the servers are in the same facility as AppHarbor. http://blog.cloudant.com/dot-net-couchdb-cloudant-appharbor/
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on “AppHarbor (YC W11) launches add-on ecosystem using Heroku's (YC W08) API”Submitted Monsanto chooses Cloudant to power its genome analytics as a story · 130 points
HN discussionScaling writes requires partitioning, which can be done in CouchDB with either: http://tilgovi.github.com/couchdb-lounge/ or in a hosted Erlang version: http://blog.cloudant.com/dynamo-and-couchdb-clusters
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on “CouchDB: The Definitive Guide”Submitted MapReduce from the basics to the actually useful (in under 30 minutes) as a story · 104 points
HN discussionYes, thank you. Just after I posted my question here I realized that much of what I was wondering about was also answered in another post on the Cloudant blog: http://blog.cloudant.com/technical-look-at-cloudant-search/
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on “Cloudant (YC S08) Releases In-Database, Distributed Search”Submitted Cloudant's BigCouch is Now Open Source as a story · 99 points
HN discussionThe thing we see with CouchDB in production is that, although under low load we aren't the fastest kid on the block, as you ramp up concurrency (hundreds or thousands of simultaneous clients) with mixed reads and writes, on a multi-GB database, we don't slow down. an old BBC case-study: http://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/London2009/speakers... Building a test harness is non-trivial, Igal's tests are a lot like…
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on “Comparing Non-Relational Databases: CouchDB, MongoDB, Tokyo Tyrant”Submitted Announcing BigCouch 0.4 as a story · 54 points
HN discussionThere is a recently open-sourced fork of CouchDB that does the sharding thing. With this addition to the capabilities, CouchDB really can scale up to hundred machine clusters. http://blog.cloudant.com/cloudant-core-is-open-source
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on “First Impressions of Sitting a Web App on CouchDB”Submitted Cloudant (YC S08) Releases In-Database, Distributed Search as a story · 53 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fukushima from Afar: Realtime Data that Matters as a story · 52 points
HN discussionSubmitted How we chose and furnished an office the Y Combinator way as a story · 49 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dynamo and CouchDB Clusters as a story · 49 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cloudant (YC S08) Introduces Java Based Map-Reduce Views as a story · 33 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cloudant.com Refresh: CouchDB in the Cloud as a story · 32 points
HN discussionSubmitted Optimizing your CouchDB Calls by 99% (no strings attached) as a story · 30 points
HN discussionSubmitted Developer Preview: Cloudant Search for CouchDB as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some Thoughts on the Couchbase Announcement as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Announcing CouchDB Summit: Boston as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Future of Apache CouchDB as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Well, how did I get here?Talking Heads as a story · 1 points
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