This book introduces you to Apache CouchDB, a document-oriented database designed to work with applications that handle commonplace information such as contacts, invoices, and receipts. In CouchDB: The Definitive Guide, three of the core developers gently explain how to work with CouchDB, using clear and practical scenarios. Each chapter showcases key features, such as simple document CRUD (create, read, update, delete), advanced MapReduce, and deployment tuning for performance and reliability.

This hands-on book introduces you to Apache CouchDB, a document-oriented database that offers a different way to model your data. CouchDB is a schema-free database, designed to work with applications that handle commonplace information such as contacts, invoices, and receipts -- information that's easier to access as self-contained documents, rather than as records in a relational database.

In CouchDB: The Definitive Guide, three of the core developers of this database gently explain how to work with CouchDB, using clear and practical scenarios. Each chapter showcases key features, such as simple document CRUD (create, read, update, delete), advanced MapReduce, and deployment tuning for performance and reliability.

With this book, you will:

• Understand the basics of document-based storage and manipulation
• Learn how CouchDB's RESTful nature lets you interact with it by sending HTTP requests and receiving HTTP responses
• Model data as self-contained JSON documents
• Manage basic document CRUD
• Handle evolving data naturally
• Query and aggregate data in CouchDB using MapReduce views
• Replicate data between nodes
• Carry out deployment tuning for performance and reliability

Why complicate your recordkeeping by using a cumbersome relational database, when you can save your data as self-contained documents with CouchDB? Learn how CouchDB is ideal for high volume, distributed applications, and useful as an application framework on its own, with CouchDB: The Definitive Guide. It's the only book that covers this database.