Getting Started with CouchDB - MC Brown

CouchDB is a modern database designed for the Internet, tailored to meet the requirements of today's dynamic web applications. This concise introduction highlights how CouchDB's straightforward approach to storing, processing, and accessing data makes it well-suited for the kind of data and quick response users expect from applications. Additionally, it emphasizes the ease of setting up, deploying, maintaining, and scaling CouchDB.

This book contains code-packed examples that demonstrate working with documents, populating a simple database, replicating data between databases, and various other essential tasks.

• Install CouchDB on Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, or from the source code if necessary.
• Interact with data using CouchDB's RESTful API, and utilize standard HTTP operations such as PUT, GET, POST, and DELETE.
• Utilize Futon, which is CouchDB's web-based interface, for managing databases and documents, as well as configuring replications.
• Learn to create, update, and delete documents in JSON format, and manage databases accordingly.
• Work with design documents to achieve the formatting and indexing required for your application.

Author: Brown, MC
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: Getting Started with CouchDB
Pages: 00084 (Unencrypted )
On Sale: 2012-02-03
SKU-13/ISBN: 9781449307554
Category: Computers : Data Modeling & Design, Computers : System Administration - Storage & Retrieval