CouchDB is a document-based database developed by Apache Foundation. Its primary features are eventual consistency, high availability and extreme scalability. It's written in Erlang. Here's the related link on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CouchDB.
Here's a link to a good installation guide on Ubuntu Hardy 8.04:
http://barkingiguana.com/2008/06/28/installing-couchdb-080-on-ubuntu-804
It works perfectly also with the latest version of CouchDB (currently 0.8.1).
The actual goal is eventual consistency, not "non-consistency." I can't imagine who would possibly want that feature! Heh.
RispondiEliminaSorry, I meant features as "characteristics" of the software, not goals :) My english is not so good... The DB works on an eventual consistency, as you said, without the guarantee of a full consistency.
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