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19th October 2007 - Link Blog

CouchDB first impressions. Jacob’s been poking at CouchDB. Inserting data is slow, but everything else looks pretty slick considering how recently the JSON / JavaScript views functionality was added.

Posted 19th October 2007 at 11:43 am

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 19th October 2007.

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