> You can write map/reduce views in Erlang itself as an alternative, but that engine is disabled by default due to security concerns – it's "not sandboxed".
I get the impression the author(s) of this DB were still at the stage of needing to brow-beat the infrastructure into submission, or somesuch :S
One of the stated goals on their Spidermonkey replacement issue (N.B. it still won't fix the view server protocol performance, but at least it'll be a modern engine) is "Get my C skills back out of the closet", and will require https://github.com/jquery/esprima.
I get the impression the author(s) of this DB were still at the stage of needing to brow-beat the infrastructure into submission, or somesuch :S