Friday, April 17, 2009

Couches in Browsers at Toolness

Couches in Browsers at Toolness: "urthermore, CouchDB’s MapReduce paradigm also naturally takes advantage of multiple processor cores—something that is increasingly common in today’s computing devices.

To explore the possibility, I decided to spend some time prototyping a JavaScript implementation of CouchDB, which I’ve dubbed BrowserCouch. It’s intended to work across all browsers, gracefully upgrading its functionality when support for features like Web Workers and DOM Storage are detected."

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