Getting Started with CouchDB

CouchDBis a new breed of database for the Internet, geared to meet the needs oftoday’s dynamic web applications. With this concise introduction, you’ll learnhow CouchDB’s simple model for storing, processing, and accessing data makes itideal for the type of data and rapid response users now demand from yourapplications—and how easy CouchDB is to set up, deploy, maintain, and scale.

Thecode-packed examples in this book will help you learn how to work withdocuments, populate a simple database, replicate data from one database toanother, and a host of other tasks.

• Install CouchDB on Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, or (if you must) from the source code
• Interact with data through CouchDB’s RESTful API, and use standard HTTP operations, such as PUT, GET, POST, and DELETE
• Use Futon—CouchDB’s web-based interface— to manage databases and documents, and to configure replications
• Learn how to create, update, and delete documents in JSON format, and how to create and delete databases
• Work with design documents to get the formatting and indexing your application requires