Not sure if anyone will see this, but Matt Aimonetti (yes, that Matt Aimonetti) just posted to the CouchRest (a ruby library) ML reporting that with the availability of recent RPC-JSON ruby/erlang direct access libraries, an estimated 5x speedup was possible over the straight HTTP.
5x speedup by integrating with erlang direct, and the HTTP is still there if you need it. So there goes much of the premise of the blog post. Needless to say, the DB itself has still not been optimised for speed - not even close - so this is far from the last word on the project's ultimate speed potential.
This is why you don't read too much into the current performance characteristics of alpha software.
5x speedup by integrating with erlang direct, and the HTTP is still there if you need it. So there goes much of the premise of the blog post. Needless to say, the DB itself has still not been optimised for speed - not even close - so this is far from the last word on the project's ultimate speed potential.
This is why you don't read too much into the current performance characteristics of alpha software.