How to add nodes

[Stephen Mullins <sm...@gmail.com>]

Hello,

I have not used CouchDB but am researching it for a project. I'm unable to
find in the documentation the operational instructions for adding nodes to a
live CouchDB database. Can someone please point me to them or describe the
steps involved in adding a node?

Thanks,
Stephen

Re: How to add nodes

[Dave Cottlehuber <da...@muse.net.nz>]

On 25 August 2010 06:34, Stephen Mullins <sm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have not used CouchDB but am researching it for a project. I'm unable to
> find in the documentation the operational instructions for adding nodes to a
> live CouchDB database. Can someone please point me to them or describe the
> steps involved in adding a node?
>
> Thanks,
> Stephen
>

Hi Stephen

native CouchDB does not have a concept of clustering. There are a
number of other couchdb -related projects that do - for example lounge
- http://tilgovi.github.com/couchdb-lounge/

For CouchDB instead you setup replication between each couch, that's
enough. Each couch is aware of its own replication partners & this is
done over HTTP. It's awesomely simple:

http://guide.couchdb.org/editions/1/en/replication.html
http://guide.couchdb.org/editions/1/en/balancing.html
http://guide.couchdb.org/editions/1/en/clustering.html

cheers
Dave