> I have a feeling you haven't used SQL databases very often.
No, I've not. I just never liked the way it worked so I have to honest and open about my prejudice.
> This is exactly the kind of thing that [...] noSQL databases do poorly.
That's really not true. I've built web apps that do pretty much exactly what that voting apps does and I use CouchDB to do it because it was built specifically for this kind of thing, and it makes it very easy.
That's not the same as saying SQL won't work. Or even that it's a bad choice by design if it's what you're familiar with and good at using it.
How much time have you spent with CouchDB?
I do know that those coming from a long history of using SQL dbs often have a hard time using CouchDB. I had a hard time with SQL, so maybe it's a right brain/left brain kind of thing. Or maybe it's just not really wanting to learn a different way to do what you already know how to do with a different tool.
I chose to use a hand rolled flat file database early on (around 2000) as a backend for my web apps. When CouchDB hit v1.4 I switched to it because it worked very much the same as my db and offered a lot of advantages. It's gotten a lot better over the years since too.
So yeah, my view comes from a different perspective.
