I have been using CouchDB for just a little over two years.  Some of my initial findings still hold true today.  It is fast, flexible and “of the web.”  It sounds kitschy, but do some reading, learn more about it and I am pretty sure you will be impressed.

One of the best features in CouchDB is the ability to both host data and an application within the same CouchDB database.  Throw in Couch’s built in replication capabilities and you can share full applications with other people that use CouchDB with a few simple clicks.  It really is that easy.

For all you fellow litigation support/eDiscovery folks out there, I am going to publish a NIST file database that is hosted in CouchDB.  It will have every NIST hash in an easy-to-look-up database.  If you find it useful, I will give out the URL to the Couch database so you can replicate it yourself.  

Let me know if you are interested.  It will be available in about a month.