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I am currently working on these benchmarks to get first-hand data about the scaling properties of CouchDB. Specifically I care about disk usage (to figure out when sharding will be required) and replication speed. However, along the way I am also collecting potentially other useful information, but keep in mind that my test methodology will clearly focus on disk usage and replication characteristics.

If you want to get some more insights into evaluating CouchDB and other #nosql databases, I highly recommend those 2 articles by Jan Lehnardt (@janl):
If you want to get some more insights into evaluating CouchDB and other #nosql databases, I highly recommend those 2 articles by Jan Lehnardt ("@janl":http://twitter.com/janl):

http://jan.prima.de/~jan/plok/archives/175-Benchmarks-You-are-Doing-it-Wrong.html
http://jan.prima.de/~jan/plok/archives/176-Caveats-of-Evaluating-Databases.html
"Benchmarks: You are Doing it Wrong":http://jan.prima.de/~jan/plok/archives/175-Benchmarks-You-are-Doing-it-Wrong.html
"Caveats of Evaluating Databases":http://jan.prima.de/~jan/plok/archives/176-Caveats-of-Evaluating-Databases.html

h1. Setup

I have choosen to run all tests on Amazon EC2 with c1.medium instances. The reason is simply that this will be my production environment, but it has also the benefit that others can easily verify / compare my results.
I have chosen to run all tests on Amazon EC2 with c1.medium instances. The reason is simply that this will be my production environment, but it has also the benefit that others can easily verify / compare my results.

So far I have been using ami-0d729464 (Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty, see "alestic.com":http://alestic.com/). But any other Ubuntu >= 8.04 version should do as well.

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If you need more data than what is currently reported, just fork this project on GitHub and I'll integrate your changes. I'm cool with any languages, I just use PHP as again this is what I use in production and what I know the best.

Feedback & questions can be sent to felix@debuggable.com. I'm @felixge on twitter.
Feedback & questions can be sent to felix@debuggable.com. I'm "@felixge":http://twitter.com/felixge on twitter and the_undefined in #couchdb.

Thanks for checking this out,
-- Felix Geisendörfer

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