Seven Databases in Seven Weeks, 2nd Edition

Day 3: Advanced Views, Changes API, and Replicating Data

In Days 1 and 2, you learned how to perform basic CRUD operations and interact with views for finding data. Building on this experience, today we’ll take a closer look at views, dissecting the reduce part of the mapreduce equation. After that, we’ll develop some Node.js applications in JavaScript to leverage CouchDB’s unique Changes API. Lastly, we’ll discuss replication and how CouchDB handles conflicting data.

Creating Advanced Views with Reducers

Mapreduce-based views provide the means by which we can harness CouchDB’s indexing and aggregation facilities. In Day 2, all our views consisted solely of mappers. Now we’re going to add reducers to the mix, developing new capabilities against ...