Day 3: Advanced Views, Changes API, and Replicating Data
In Days 1 and 2 we 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 of only mappers. Now we’re going to add reducers to the mix, developing new capabilities against ...
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