Rearchitecting CouchDB Secondary Indexes on Top of FoundationDB

Rearchitecting CouchDB Secondary Indexes on Top of FoundationDB

Explore the architectural challenges and solutions in rewriting Apache CouchDB's secondary indexes to run on FoundationDB in this 18-minute conference talk. Delve into the process of redesigning Map/Reduce, Mango, and Text Search indexes while maintaining user experience and feature parity. Learn about data modeling strategies for each index type, managing global index state, avoiding conflicts during index building, ensuring correct result sorting, and implementing Apache Lucene on FoundationDB for Text Search. Gain insights into benchmarking results and future plans for improving index architecture in this comprehensive overview of modernizing a long-standing database system.