Top five: Razones para elegir CouchDB

En el sitio nosql, publicaron este top 5 de las razones de porque usar CouchDB

• CouchDB Stores Data in Documents – CouchDB manages data in the form of JSON documents.
• Data is Unique and Never Overwritten - when a piece of data is written to a CouchDB document, it will have completely unique identification and will never be overwritten.
• CouchDB Makes Replication Easy and Efficient – CouchDB databases can replicate from one to another, in a sort of “Master-Master” configuration.  This way, any CouchDB database can accept data as well as replicate that data to any other CouchDB database quickly.
• Interact With CouchDB Over HTTP Using RESTful – the protocol of CouchDB is RESTful over HTTP.
• CouchDB Has Own Webserver – Anyone who has messed around with an LAMP system knows that Apache can hog a ton of memory.  Since CouchDB uses has it’s own webserver, you can save a lot of memory by avoiding Apache all together.