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Posted to user@couchdb.apache.org by Jens Alfke <je...@mooseyard.com> on 2009/02/17 18:44:23 UTC

Any docs or specs on how replication works?

I'd like to learn how CouchDB's replication protocol works. Not at the  
implementation level (I don't read Erlang well enough for that!) but  
are there any design docs that describe what's happening  
architecturally?

Conceptually, I can imagine it being based on an "_all_docs_by_seq"  
query, where the pulling server remembers the last sequence ID it's  
pulled in the past, grabs all the newer docs, and puts them to its  
local database. Is there more to it than that?

—Jens

Re: Any docs or specs on how replication works?

Posted by Robert Dionne <di...@dionne-associates.com>.

This doc has a bit on replication:

http://horicky.blogspot.com/2008/10/couchdb-implementation.html




On Feb 17, 2009, at 12:44 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:

> I'd like to learn how CouchDB's replication protocol works. Not at  
> the implementation level (I don't read Erlang well enough for  
> that!) but are there any design docs that describe what's happening  
> architecturally?
>
> Conceptually, I can imagine it being based on an "_all_docs_by_seq"  
> query, where the pulling server remembers the last sequence ID it's  
> pulled in the past, grabs all the newer docs, and puts them to its  
> local database. Is there more to it than that?
>
> —Jens