The primary home page for the Lounge has MOVED: http://tilgovi.github.com/couchdb-lounge/

The svn repository herein is no longer guaranteed to be up to date.

The Lounge is a proxy-based partitioning/clustering framework for CouchDB, originally written by Kevin Ferguson, Vijay Ragunathan and Shaun Lindsay at Meebo.com.

There are two main pieces:

• dumbproxy: An NGINX module to handle simple gets/puts for everything that isn't a view.
• smartproxy: A python/twisted daemon that handles mapping/reducing view requests to all shards in the cluster.

As well as an assortment of smaller scripts and whatnot.

To get started using this, grab a copy of the source tree and follow the steps in BuildInstructions. I'll hopefully have some prebuilt rpm and deb packages available soon.

The Lounge currently works with the CouchDB 0.10.0.

Enjoy!

Also, if anyone feels like packaging couchdb-lounge for some of the major distros, that would be awesome.

Oh, if you're wondering why your comments have gone unanswered, it's because I didn't set up google code to email anyone when comments/issue were posted. I just rectified that (8/14/09).