- Author: J. Chris Anderson, Jan Lehnardt, and Noah Slater
- Format: online HTML
- Price: free
The book is designed to guide you gently through using CouchDB with clear but practical scenarios. It progressively showcases key features, starting with simple document CRUD, working through to advanced MapReduce, and culminating with deployment tuning for performance and reliability.
Chapters include:
- Why CouchDB?
- Eventual Consistency
- Getting Started
- The Core API
- Design Documents
- Finding Your Data with Views
- Validation Functions
- Show Functions
- Transforming Views with List Functions
- Standalone Applications
- Managing Design Documents
- Storing Blog Posts in Documents
- Displaying Blog Posts with Shows
- Viewing Lists of Blog Posts
- Scaling Basics
- Replication
- Conflict Management
- Load Balancing
- Clustering
- Change Notifications
- Views for SQL Jockeys
- Security
- High Performance
- Recipes
- Installing on Unix-like systems
- Installing on Mac OS X
- Installing on Windows
- Installing from Source
- JSON Primer
- The Power of B-Trees
