CouchDB: The Definitive Guide (Animal Guide) - Softcover

Anderson, J Chris; Lehnardt, Jan; Slater, Noah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0596155891 ISBN 13: 9780596155896

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, 2010

Synopsis

Three of CouchDB's creators show you how to use this document-oriented database as a standalone application framework or with high-volume, distributed applications. With its simple model for storing, processing, and accessing data, CouchDB is ideal for web applications that handle huge amounts of loosely structured data. That alone would stretch the limits of a relational database, yet CouchDB offers an open source solution that's reliable, scales easily, and responds quickly.

CouchDB works with self-contained data that has loose or ad-hoc connections. It's a model that fits many real-world items, such as contacts, invoices, and receipts, but you'll discover that this database can easily handle data of any kind. With this book, you'll learn how to work with CouchDB through its RESTful web interface, and become familiar with key features such as simple document CRUD (create, read, update, delete), advanced MapReduce, deployment tuning, and more.

• Understand the basics of document-oriented storage and manipulation
• Interact with CouchDB entirely though HTTP using its RESTful interface
• Model data as self-contained JSON documents
• Handle evolving data schemas naturally
• Query and aggregate data in CouchDB using MapReduce views
• Replicate data between nodes
• Tune CouchDB for increased performance and reliability

About this title

About the Author

J. Chris Anderson is an Apache CouchDB committer and co-author of the forthcoming O'Reilly book "CouchDB: The Definitive Guide". He is a director of couch.io, offering commercial hosting, support, consulting, and custom development. He enjoys working on JavaScript CouchApps which can be peer-replicated just like any other data. Chris is obsessed with bending the physics of the web, and giving control back to users. Jan Lehnardt is CouchDB's chief evangelist and a CouchDB consultant for major industry players. Jan's has spoken about CouchDB at conferences such as O'Reilly's OSCON and Erlang eXchange. He's a director at couch.io which offers CouchDB Consulting, Training, Hosting & Support. Noah Slater is a Web Technologist with a background in ecommerce, a passion for hypertext, and an obsession with sthetics. He's written for O'Reilly Media and developed software for the GNU Project, the Apache Software Foundation, and Debian. Away from computers, he has a fascination with music, film, and photography.

Edition details

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0596155891
• ISBN 13: 9780596155896
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 270