Awesome Couchdb Overview

CouchDB - curated meta resources & best practices list

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Awesome CouchDB

A curated meta resources & best practices list for CouchDB.

CouchDB is a document-oriented NoSQL database that syncs.

Pull-Requests are welcomed.

Contents

• News & Blog Posts
• Patterns & Best Practices
  • Map/Reduce
  • Joins
  • Document Versioning
• Blogs
• Docs
• Books
• Videos
• Libraries
• Community
  • Mailing List
  • Companies
    • Hosting
  • Related Projects
• Misc/Technical
  • Attachments
  • Backups
  • CouchApps
  • Scaling
• Resource Lists
• License

News & Blog Posts

• MiniCouchDB in Rust
• The Road to CouchDB 3.0: Prepare for 4.0 (02-26-2020)

Patterns & Best Practices

• Best Practices - Best Practices, eHealth Africa.
• Pagination strategies with PouchDB
• 12 pro tips for better code with PouchDB
• Linux tuning for better CouchDB performance (⭐34)

Map/Reduce

• PouchDB - Secondary Indexes
• Cloudant - MapReduce Primer - Great intro on reduce, group, group_level.
• Using View Collation - Index mapping (emits) for data joins.
• Views Collation - More documentation on "View Collation".
• Cloudant - MapReduce and the Secondary Index (Video) - Great videos here on mapReduce, secondary indexes, and complex keys.
• Cloudant - Design Documents - Cloudant's documentation is also great resource for learning concepts of CouchDB.
• Cloudant - Design Document Management - How to manage design doc changes in production.

Joins

• Joins with Views - Must read for understanding approach on doing efficient joins for CouchDB/PouchDB.
• Grouping related documents together in Cloudant - An approach that leverages CouchDB high availability nature.

Document Versioning

• Document Revisions (from wiki)
• Simple Document Versioning

Blogs

• Official Blog

Docs

• Official Docs
• FAQ (old wiki) - Seems to have more faqs than the new wiki.

Books

• The Definitive Guide - CouchDB's "Dog" Book.
• List of books on the Wiki

Videos

• 10 Common Misconceptions - More videos from this conference.
• The NoSQL Tapes - CouchDB is discussed on Volume 5 - CouchDB, Volume 8 - MapReduce.
• Scaling Out with BigCouch - O'Reilly video on scaling out with BigCouch.
• IBM - The New Builders Webinar Series

Libraries

• Jaki (⭐17) - A simple ClojureScript CouchDB client

Community

• IRC - irc://irc.freenode.net/couchdb
• Apache CouchDB Conf - Lots of video links.
• Bylaws, Minutes

Mailing List

-dev is where developers of couchdb chat, -user is where users of couchdb chat and there's some crosstalk ofc -dev is appropriate if you're talking about changes to couchdb itself ("developer" doesn't mean you have to have a commit bit or anything) -rnewson

• Mailing Lists
• Mailing Lists Description
• Grokbase - Mailing lists in a Stack Overflow-like interface.

🌟The Amazing CouchDB Committers and Project Managers :heart_eyes_cat:

Companies

• eHealth Africa - Big user of CouchDB, check out their best practices (⭐311).

Hosting

• Cloudant - Distributed database as a service (DBaaS).
• Fly.io use this Guide to host
• Bitnami Launchpad for Google Cloud Platform - Host CouchDB on Google Cloud Platform.

Related Projects

• PouchDB - A pocket-sized database.
• FoundationDB - CouchDB 4.0 will utilize FoundationDB.
• Hoodie - A backend for Offline First applications.
• Couchbase - NoSQL database.
  • Migrating from Apache CouchDB - Comparison of CouchDB and CouchBase
• RxDB - NoSQL-database for JavaScript Applications. RxDB provides modules for realtime replication with any CouchDB compliant endpoint and also with custom GraphQL endpoints.

Misc/Technical

• Dynamo and CouchDB Clusters - Article about scaling CouchDB, using clusters.
• Google’s paper on Sawzall - Exotic Reductions Examples.
• What Every Developer Should Know About CouchDB - Article about lessons learned.
• CouchDB Maximum Database Size
• NOSQL Patterns
• Persistent Trees in git, Clojure and CouchDB
• CouchDB - JSON and B-trees and REST, oh my!

Attachments

• PouchDB - Attachments are overrated - "Update: since this post was written, the stability and performance of attachments in PouchDB has greatly improved. ..."
• Cloudant - Attachments Performance Considerations
• Are attachments duplicated for each revision? - Mailing list discussion about attachments across revisions.

Backups

• Simple CouchDB and Cloudant Backup - Article on IBM about backups.
• Cloudant Backup Guide - Cloudant docs on backups.

CouchApps

• List of CouchApps
• Ddoc Lab - Create couchapps and CouchDB design docs right in your browser.

Scaling

• Bitnami CouchDB - Bitnami makes it easy to run CouchDB in the cloud.

Resource Lists

• Official CouchDB Wiki
• Official CouchDB Wiki (old) - Some things aren't on new wiki yet.
• Cloudant Official Guides - Applicable to CouchDB.
• List of CouchDB Clients
• List of CouchDB Useful Utilities
• Old Wiki's Related Projects List

License

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