I like Sofas more...

Sarcasm aside; It's neat. If I remember correctly, it was coming in clutch for NPM for a while as NodeJS gained popularity. It's very long ago by now, but least to say I whitnessed the transistion from the 0.x releases - and NPM had it rough for quite a while. In that time, I suddenly saw an astounding amount of articles and mentions about CouchDB - don't really remember why exactly tho.