Category Archives: couchdb

couchdb coming back for more

Posted on October 30, 2009 by jay

Not that long ago, JChris pointed out that not only was there a new version of couchdb out but that Janl had released a new version of his OSX package, CouchDBX!! So I knew I needed to find a time … Continue reading →

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CouchDB Performance – Too much TCP

Posted on May 31, 2009 by jay

It’s been a while since I ran my CouchDB performance test, but many of the comments I received suggested that updating my codebase should yield some significant performance improvements. Unfortunately, at the time I didn’t have spare cycles to invest … Continue reading →

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Hadoop Benchmark and CouchDB Implications

Posted on April 23, 2009 by jay

Although I don’t write much about it directly I’m a big fan of the MapReduce approach to computing and data mining. I love the fluid manner with which it encourages partitioning and how little code is required to focus directly … Continue reading →

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CouchDB Performance or Use a File

Posted on March 19, 2009 by jay

If this is the first post you’ve read from my blog you should probably go check some others and assert for yourself that I’m a big fan of couchDB. Even if it wasn’t easy to be impressed by Damon Katz’s, … Continue reading →

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Could a couchdb guru explain this, please?

Posted on March 13, 2009 by jay

I’m in the process of trying to build (and benchmarking) a couchdb project and I decided to use some word count & frequency samples as data. Since “word count” and “grep” are the quintessential map/reduce examples I thought this would … Continue reading →

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How to build Couchdb on Dreamhost

Posted on March 4, 2009 by jay

As you know from many of my entries I’m a big fan of couchdb, and if you’re interested you should really be following janl, jchris and lethain as they push this technology forward. As you might also guess from my … Continue reading →

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Building CouchDB

Posted on March 4, 2009 by jay

This is a quick technical post for posterity, if you’re not interested I won’t be offended if you leave now. I’m working to try to get couchdb on my hosting provider, Dreamhost. They’ve been a great service for me so … Continue reading →

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Training Neural Nets with CouchDB – part 3

Posted on December 4, 2008 by jay

Hopefully you’ve been following parts 1 and 2 and I didn’t leave anyone too confused by my approach. Please visit my posts for a far better recap then I can provide here (DRY); In part 1, I introduced the overall … Continue reading →

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Training Neural Nets with CouchDB – part 2

Posted on December 2, 2008 by jay

It’s always nice to have a little encouragement especially when trying to work through some tough posts. I really prefer white boards and pictures but I find these too hard to make for blogging so I try to let the … Continue reading →

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Training Neural Nets with CouchDB – part 1

Posted on December 1, 2008 by jay

My goal for this post is a bit technical and I’ll try warping both an artificial neural net, as well as my biological one, around an exploration of CouchDB, so read on if appropriate to your interests. As you may … Continue reading →

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