Seven Databases in Seven Weeks, 2nd Edition

Wrap-Up

Throughout this chapter, you’ve seen how to do a pretty wide range of tasks with CouchDB, from performing basic CRUD operations to building views out of mapreduce functions. You saw how to watch for changes, and you explored how to develop nonblocking event-driven client applications. Finally, you learned how to perform ad-hoc replication between databases and how to detect and resolve conflicts. Despite all of this content, there’s still a lot we didn’t cover, but now it’s time to wrap things up before heading off to our next database.

CouchDB’s Strengths

CouchDB is a robust and stable member of the NoSQL community. Built on the philosophy that networks are unreliable and hardware failure is imminent, CouchDB offers a heartily decentralized ...