CouchDB 2.0 released on September 2016 has clustering support.

#cd /usr/src
#wget http://www-eu.apache.org/dist/couchdb/source/2.0.0/apache-couchdb-2.0.0.tar.gz
#tar xvzf apache-couchdb-2.0.0.tar.gz
#cd apache-couchdb-2.0.0
#./configure
#make release

By any chance you encounter this error,

ERROR: Unable to generate spec: read file info /usr/lib/erlang/man/man1/gcc-ar.1.gz failed 
ERROR: Unexpected error: rebar_abort   
generate failed while processing  rebar_abort

You need to install erlang-base-hipe instead of erlang-base

#aptitude install erlang-base-hipe
#rm /usr/lib/erlang/main
#make clean
#make release