and this is of course in a scenario where there is a decent % writes
In my use of CouchDB and Couchbase (2.0) i find myself sometimes having to write cron jobs or something that will automatically ping a view to keep it updated, so that I can get up2date view data without waiting too long, without requesting stale results etc.
I feel your pain as far as wanting the newest result from my views. I would recommend that you don’t do the cron method due to having to compact your Views more often.
The solution that I have found was the use of Elasticsearch with Couchbase. I would Highly recommend this approach. You can check out how to get started with
http://www.couchbase.com/docs/couchbase-elasticsearch/couchbase-elastic-intro.html#fig-couchbase-elastic-components
The official download location for the plugin never worked for me. So I just got the one from github.
bin/plugin -install transport-couchbase -url http://packages.couchbase.com.s3.amazonaws.com/releases/elastic-search-adapter/1.0.0/elasticsearch-transport-couchbase-1.0.0-beta.zip
Also the documentation also says it only supports up to Elasticsearch 20.0 , but I got 20.6 working fine.