Hi all,<div><br></div><div>I've got to build an enormous finite state machine (FSM) to hold state for tens of thousands of in-flight transactions. The various state transitions aren't well known yet; all I know is there's going to be lots of state transactions per transaction, transaction volume will be extremely high, and I'll probably have a bare minimum of time to throw together a working solution ;-></div>
<div><br></div><div>In the past I've used mnesia to hold transaction state for similar projects, but I've read a few articles about problems with it scaling and have a bit of a concern on that count for this particular project. I've been using CouchDB for a few unrelated projects recently, and have been impressed with it on every score - on the surface it seems to be a good fit for my specific problem. However I haven't stumbled on anybody using CouchDB as a high throughput, transitional data store - everything I've read about it has involved CouchDB working more or less as a NoSQL version of a "traditional" write-once, read-often data store.</div>
<div><br></div><div>My application is far more "write-once, update-many-times-very-quickly, delete" from a data perspective.</div><div><br></div><div>Has anyone used CouchDB as a FSM data store in a similar project in the past? Pros and cons? Any tips or suggestions?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance</div><div><br></div><div>David Mitchell</div>