MC Brown. Getting Started with CouchDB 2012

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 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 Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, or (if you must) from the source codeInteract with data through CouchDB’s RESTful API, and use standard HTTP operations, such as PUT, GET, POST, and DELETEUse Futon—CouchDB’s web-based interface— to manage databases and documents, and to configure replicationsLearn how to create, update, and delete documents in JSON format, and how to create and delete databasesWork with design documents to get the formatting and indexing your application requires This concise guide contain everything you need to begin storing and retrieving information through CouchDB. You'll learn the basic of this document-oriented database, including its simple model for storing, processing, and accessing data.