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What Does Couch Mean? |
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Answer» It's an acronym, Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware. This is a statement of Couch's long term goals of massive scalability and HIGH reliability on fault prone hardware. The distributed nature and flat address space of the database will ENABLE node partitioning for STORAGE scalability (with a map/reduce STYLE query facility) and clustering for reliability and fault TOLERANCE. It's an acronym, Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware. This is a statement of Couch's long term goals of massive scalability and high reliability on fault prone hardware. The distributed nature and flat address space of the database will enable node partitioning for storage scalability (with a map/reduce style query facility) and clustering for reliability and fault tolerance. |
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