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Three of CouchDB's creators show you how to use this document-oriented database as a standalone application framework or with high-volume, distributed applications. With its simple model for storing, processing, and accessing data, CouchDB is ideal for web applications that handle huge amounts of loosely structured data. That alone would stretch the limits of a relational database, yet CouchDB offers an open source solution that's reliable, scales easily, and responds quickly.
CouchDB works with self-contained data that has loose or ad-hoc connections. It's a model that fits many real-world items, such as contacts, invoices, and receipts, but you'll discover that this database can easily handle data of any kind. With this book, you'll learn how to work with CouchDB through its RESTful web interface, and become familiar with key features such as simple document CRUD (create, read, update, delete), advanced MapReduce, deployment tuning, and more.
Dedication
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Why CouchDB?
Chapter 2: Eventual Consistency
Chapter 3: Getting Started
Chapter 4: The Core API
Developing with CouchDB
Chapter 5: Design Documents
Chapter 6: Finding Your Data with Views
Chapter 7: Validation Functions
Chapter 8: Show Functions
Chapter 9: Transforming Views with List Functions
Example Application
Chapter 10: Standalone Applications
Chapter 11: Managing Design Documents
Chapter 12: Storing Documents
Chapter 13: Showing Documents in Custom Formats
Chapter 14: Viewing Lists of Blog Posts
Deploying CouchDB
Chapter 15: Scaling Basics
Chapter 16: Replication
Chapter 17: Conflict Management
Chapter 18: Load Balancing
Chapter 19: Clustering
Reference
Chapter 20: Change Notifications
Chapter 21: View Cookbook for SQL Jockeys
Chapter 22: Security
Chapter 23: High Performance
Chapter 24: Recipes
Appendixes
Installing on Unix-like Systems
Installing on Mac OS X
Installing on Windows
Installing from Source
JSON Primer
The Power of B-trees
Colophon
Shannon_H
Posted Mon Dec 20 00:00:00 EST 2010
CouchDB will not open on my nook. How utterly disappointing since I purchased my nook with the intent of using it to manage my technical library. Is there no QA for ebooks? It gets better. This title is licensed under the GPL, it is available directly from the authors as a free download. I knew this and only purchased it to ensure it would be correctly formatted for the nook. Oh the irony. The best part? I have no recourse. Nookbooks can not be returned. The nook however can be returned... The book itself is very useful and well written (I have it on my PC in PDF format).
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Overview
Three of CouchDB's creators show you how to use this document-oriented database as a standalone application framework or with high-volume, distributed applications. With its simple model for storing, processing, and accessing data, CouchDB is ideal for web applications that handle huge amounts of loosely structured data. That alone would stretch the limits of a relational database, yet CouchDB offers an open source solution that's reliable, scales easily, and responds quickly.
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