Improve CouchDB "plugin" architecture for geo/search

[wohali]

We've had multiple discussions on the mailing lists and IRC previously about this problem: right now, you need to recompile CouchDB from scratch if you want to add search (dreyfus) or geo (hastings) support.

This isn't great, and makes things like Docker images that include references to those things unwieldy (since you can't just add another layer on top of the existing couchdb image.)

@davisp you said you had some specific ideas here, can you elaborate in this issue? Thanks!

[lucidNTR]

@davisp any news on this?

[wohali]

From the merged #1516:

Once #1515 is done, this should be easy.

@janl:

• deeeper clouseau/dreyfus integration
• elasticsearch?

@davisp:

At least a clear example of how to bundle and include Clouseau/Dreyfus.
Just had someone ask how to use Dreyfus/Clouseau with CouchDB and I had to google for instructions and came across this:

https://developer.ibm.com/dwblog/2015/text-search-apache-couchdb/

Definitely Exhibit A on needing better integration. That's a lot of difficult steps for getting full text set up.

[homerjam]

Any more updates on this? It would be so wonderful not to be reliant on IBM! They can't even seem to handle billing 🤦🏻‍♂️

[wohali]

If there's progress, you'll see it linked here. As there is no update, there has been no progress.

[wohali]

Part of this merged with #2037 .

[dsebastien]

I'm curious about the status of this feature.
In my current project we're using CouchDB as the main data store and are starting to look at search scenarios. FTS would clearly help us.

Is there anything I/we can do to help this move forward?

[lucidNTR]

@dsebastien as far as i understood @wohali last month it will be part of couchdb 3.

[dsebastien]

@lucidNTR Indeed, i just saw the details through this recent talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjXyVZZFkBg. Apparently Couch v3 will be released soon! :)

[nickva]

Dreyfus / clouseau is now part of couchdb as part of 3.x+

Geo hasn't gotten much support and demand at Cloudant and as such, is now removed. There a few remnants of it in the Apache CouchDB code but we should probably remove those.