Ebook: Getting Started with CouchDB

CouchDB is a new breed of database for the Internet, geared to meet the needs of today's dynamic web applications. With this concise introduction, you'll learn how CouchDB's simple model for storing, processing, and accessing data makes it ideal for the type of data and rapid response users now demand from your applications-and how easy CouchDB is to set up, deploy, maintain, and scale. The code-packed examples in this book will help you learn how to work with documents, populate a simple database, replicate data from one database to another, and a host of other tasks. Install CouchDB on Lin.;Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Books Online; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1. Why CouchDB?; Learning to Relax; A Different Data Model; Replication; Eventual Consistency; Data: Local, Remote, Everywhere; CouchDB Deployment and Peformance; Chapter 2. Installation; Installation on Linux; Installation on Mac OS X; Using Homebrew; Using MacPorts; Installation on Windows; Installation from Source; Configuring and Building CouchDB; Running CouchDB; Next Steps; Chapter 3. CouchDB Basics; Using Futon