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What is the largest production deployment of CouchDB for online use?

25th August 2010

My answer to What is the largest production deployment of CouchDB for online use? on Quora

The BBC have a pretty big CouchDB cluster, which they use mostly as a replicated key-value store. It’s used by their new identity platform which includes customisation features for iPlayer.

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