[PRL] CouchDB

[Dave Herman]

> It made a lot of noise on blogs and such some time ago, but seems to
> have been forgotten since. I haven't looked at it, though.

It's getting a new round of publicity since Mozilla's announced they're 
building their experimental new Raindrop tool on top of it.

For the curious: AFAICT, CouchDB is a schema-less distributed database 
built in Erlang with a RESTful, JSON-based HTTP API and the ability to 
write Map/Reduce style queries.

Think about this for a moment:

     Buzzword    Inspiration
     --------    -----------
     REST        statelessness
     JSON        S-expressions
     Map/Reduce  fold
     Erlang      Erlang

(Incidentally, it'd be great to see a PLaneT package of CouchDB bindings.)

Dave