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IBM, Cloudant and Apache CouchDB 2.0

IBM, Cloudant and Apache CouchDB 2.0

Learn more about Cloudant's ongoing commitment to open source software, re-energised by the IBM acquisition and culminating in the completion of the BigCouch-CouchDB merge.

Joan Touzet

June 17, 2014
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  1. IBM, Cloudant and Apache CouchDB 2.0

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    April 2012

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  3. April 2012 Apache CouchDB Summit
    Proposed features achieved†
    1. Replace Futon
    2. Support CORS
    3. Improve replication
    interoperability
    4. Documentation
    5. Global changes feed
    6. _changes feed for views
    7. OTP compliance refactoring
    8. Test suites
    9. Plugin interface
    10. Improve ini file handling
    Still to come:
    • Conflicts are the exception, not
    the rule
    • DSL / Richer querying support
    • Improved user/security model
    • WebSockets/EventSource/SPDY
    • More built-in map/reduce funcs
    • Remove reserved metadata
    • Partial updates/reads of docs
    • Enhance background task
    management
    And many, many more…
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    †Within one of: Apache CouchDB, Cloudant DB Core, rcouch branch

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  4. 4
    IBM Contributions to Open Source

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  5. IBM has embraced Open Source since 1960s!
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  6. BigCouch / DB Core merge status
    Done:
    1. Split single repository into one-per-application model
    2. “Nebraska” merge updated with CouchDB changes since
    March 2013
    3. Build process updated for new multi-repo model (rebar)
    4. JS test cases are all passing
    5. etap eunit conversion done, many tests pass
    Next:
    1. Merge DB Core changes since March 2013
    2. Deprecate Cloudant repos for ASF repos
    3. Add tooling to make administration easier
    4. Merge rcouch view _changes work (hopefully!)
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  7. Running the Merged Code
    • $ git clone git://github.com/rebar/rebar.git && \
    • cd rebar && ./bootstrap
    • $ cp rebar ~/bin # or /usr/local/bin or similar
    • $ git clone http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb.git \
    • -b 1843-feature-bigcouch
    • $ cd couchdb && ./configure && make

    $ dev/run
    • $ curl http://localhost:15984/ # in another terminal
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    localhost:15984 localhost:25984 localhost:35984

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  8. We need your help!
    • Run the test suite (make check)
    • Set up a dev cluster and test all operations
    • Run your application against the merged code
    • But please, not in production! ☺
    • Send bug reports to [email protected] or CouchDB JIRA
    • Chat with developers on Freenode IRC, channel #couchdb
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