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Web Development with Clojure
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Web Development with Clojure

by Dmitri Sotnikov
January 2014
Intermediate to advanced
232 pages
5h 11m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Using CouchDB

CouchDB values availability and partition tolerance. This makes it ideal for creating clusters where you want high throughput without a bottleneck.

In this section we’ll cover how to use CouchDB from Clojure to accomplish basic tasks such as storing, retrieving, and deleting documents.

As a prerequisite to working with the following examples, you’ll need to either set up a local instance of CouchDB or use one of the free CouchDB services, such as Iris Couch.[82] Once you have the database set up, create a new table using its web user interface, accessible at http://hostname:5984/_utils. We’ll call this table clutchtest.

Clutch Library

The easiest way to access CouchDB from Clojure is to use the Clutch library.[83] Clutch provides ...

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