We're seeing a lot of action in the key/value map/reduce world lately. On the one hand this is because simpler stuff scales more simply, and on the other because key/value and B-Tree stores map cleanly to some fundamental algorithms. At the heart of CouchDB's value proposition is incremental, peer-to-peer replication. All copies of a database are complete and can function independently at all time
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