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I want to move up from using plain Rails log files for my web applications, so I can analyze page views and usage patterns. I’ve heard CouchDB is sometimes used for this.
On the other hand, I know of people who just feed the plain text log files into Hadoop and reduce them into summary stats that they then insert into MySQL.
What are the pros and cons of each of these two methods of logging and analyzing log files?
I can only speak for CouchDB, but the main benefits of using a document database to store things like these are;