BioGPS: A CouchDB Case Study

CouchOne, which is now Couchbase, has posted a CouchDB case study. This specific case study focuses on BioGPS. BioGPS is "an extensible and customizable gene annotation portal that is freely available to the biological research community". According to the case study, gene annotation data has a complex and heterogeneous data structure. As a result CouchDB's key-document design was a "natural fit".

Other key highlights:

• Combined with Lucene the end solution allowed for keyword queries on text-based gene descriptions, including wild card searches.
• 2-3x performance improvements running on T1 Micro EC2 instance
• Significant improvements in data loading

Read the full case study at BioGPS: A Case Study

Update: I mistakening mentioned in an earlier version of this post that CouchDB was now Couchbase. This is obviously incorrect and the appropriate corrections have been made.