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.

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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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   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
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   $ 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 dev@couchdb.apache.org or CouchDB JIRA
   • Chat with developers on Freenode IRC, channel #couchdb
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