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Understanding Parallel Preads in CouchDB posted Friday, July 11, 2025 by Jan Lehnardt CouchDBinternalsrelease

CouchDB 3.5.0 has been released and it comes with an exciting new feature: Parallel Preads. But what does that mean? To understand them, we have to dive deep into the core of CouchDB and learn how it works before we find out how it is working even better now.