CouchDB + Node.js prototype
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Sean Copenhaver
Aug 8, 2011, 8:31:43 AM8/8/11
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Last weekend I went down to Charleston to visit some friends and go to the beach. I got the chance to sit and chat a little with another coding buddy and he mentioned they did a REST service prototype using CouchDB and Node.js. The actually system will be implemented in .NET but they put the fancy technological pairing through some trials.
In this case Node.js was actually put in front of CouchDB but it sounded like they were only using it as a fancy proxy server sort of a replacement for nginx. He said that on commodity hardware it was still flying at 2000 connections per second, where as some setup they used for comparison had much higher latency. They had to graph it on a 3d chart just so you notice the sliver versus the wall difference in response times.
I thought that was pretty awesome to hear and I would imaging node.js would make a great replacement to nginx with the ability to drop in and script something out very easily. The reason they put node.js in front is that they didn't want to say that the database was publicly visible. Which understandable. The CouchDB guys sort of believe in open source, open data, and small data (user owns their data and you try to store it as close to them as you can).
Never got a chance to get more information as to what they were trying to accomplish though.
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“The limits of language are the limits of one's world. “ -Ludwig von Wittgenstein
In this case Node.js was actually put in front of CouchDB but it sounded like they were only using it as a fancy proxy server sort of a replacement for nginx. He said that on commodity hardware it was still flying at 2000 connections per second, where as some setup they used for comparison had much higher latency. They had to graph it on a 3d chart just so you notice the sliver versus the wall difference in response times.
I thought that was pretty awesome to hear and I would imaging node.js would make a great replacement to nginx with the ability to drop in and script something out very easily. The reason they put node.js in front is that they didn't want to say that the database was publicly visible. Which understandable. The CouchDB guys sort of believe in open source, open data, and small data (user owns their data and you try to store it as close to them as you can).
Never got a chance to get more information as to what they were trying to accomplish though.
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“The limits of language are the limits of one's world. “ -Ludwig von Wittgenstein
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