But not about the author of the OODB system, which is who was discussing it.

His point was that for -his- purposes CouchDB is not a convincing option for the backend object store to KiokuDB, with detailed explanations as to why.

I don't really understand why "this tool doesn't work for me and here's why" makes you a bad person - if he was saying why RDBMSes didn't work for his problem space and thus why he was using an OODB at all, I'm sure the comments would be very different.